Mini ITX
With the highly integrated nature of PCs these days, the Mini-ITX form-factor has become a very viable option for high-performance gaming system. With plenty of motherboards available for both AMD and Intel's latest platforms, equipping an ITX system with a CPU is easy enough. But the small size of the form factor means that housing an ultra-wide flagship-level graphics card remains an issue. For this year's Computex trade show, Antec was showing off their solution to the problem of giant video cards: the Performance 1M case, a Mini-ITX case with a separate chamber just for a large video card. Antec's Performance 1M is a dual-chamber Mini-ITX chassis that splits off the video card from the rest of the system. The primary chamber houses a Mini-ITX...
ASRock Z87E-ITX Review: Motherboard Juxtaposition
In the office I am currently running through a series of smaller sized motherboards – both micro-ATX and mini-ITX. Due to the size, there is plenty of scope...
43 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2013
iBUYPOWER Releases M8 Mini-ITX Gaming System
iBUYPOWER is no stranger to these parts; we reviewed a few of their desktop and laptop systems over the years. They're now one of the larger boutique PC vendors...
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ECS Reveals Bay Trail-D Mini-ITX Line
With Intel's Bay Trail platform and Silvermont Atom cores in the news for tablets, we have spotted their use in mini-ITX platforms as far pack as Computex 2013 where...
41 by Ian Cutress on 10/23/2013
MSI Z87I Review: Mini-ITX Haswell for $140
I am always excited when a mini-ITX motherboard bound for the mainstream market crosses my desk. In a small PCB, compared to full sized ATX, it can be...
47 by Ian Cutress on 8/27/2013
GIGABYTE F2A85XN-WiFi Review: FM2 and Richland in mini-ITX
Mini-ITX is an exciting form factor, as with every CPU generation we can make something small and faster with better features over the previous gen. GIGABYTE recently released a...
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Lian Li PC-TU100 Mini-ITX Case Review
A year and a half ago, we reviewed Lian Li's PC-TU200, a decent but flawed portable enclosure. Has Lian Li improved on that design with the PC-TU100?
23 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/29/2013
PC-Q30: A New Curved Mini-ITX Chassis from Lian Li with an Acrylic Window
For many users who have gone to a large LAN event, taking stock of all the crazy PC builds is part of the experience. Some users modify the...
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SilverStone Sugo SG08 Mini-ITX Case Review
Continuing our series of reviews of smaller enclosures, we take a look at one of the smallest of all: SilverStone's impressively diminutive Sugo SG08 Mini-ITX case.
51 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/13/2013
Revolution or Evolution? ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU Mini On Show
A noticeable trend in the current desktop ecosystem is towards the small, as evidenced by the Intel NUC and successes of mini-ITX products like the BitFenix Prodigy. Users...
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iBuyPower Revolt System Review: Closing the Boutique and Opening the Store
At CES 2013, the PC boutique iBuyPower announced a product that's in many ways much more than the sum of its parts. They announced the Revolt, a small form...
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ECS Shows Off Thin Mini-ITX Boards and AIO Touchscreens
ECS invited us to stop by and we expected the usual assortment of motherboards and such. Much to our surprise, they only brought a few mITX boards at their...
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Sapphire mITX and a Budget Tahiti GPU
Like most graphics companies, Sapphire didn’t have anything major to announce at CES. Their suite was mostly dedicated to showing off their Mini-ITX Edge VS boxes, which were launched...
7 by Jarred Walton on 1/12/2013
iBuyPower Releases the Revolt Fully Custom Compact Gaming PC
The past two years has seen system integrators start to really diversify amongst themselves, but iBuyPower and CyberPowerPC in particular have been making strong inroads into retail. This CES...
4 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/9/2013
Holiday 2012 Small Form Factor Buyer's Guide
There have been many interesting developments in the small form factor market segment since our last SFF buyer's guide. Specifically, current-generation Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs and AMD Trinity APUs...
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Fractal Design Node 304 mITX Case Review: Paving the Way to the Future
We've said it before but it bears repeating: desktop systems are getting smaller. ATX is becoming less and less necessary, and mini-ITX-based machines more and more offer the same...
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DigitalStorm Bolt Gaming System Review: It's Little But It's Fierce
Since I've started reviewing boutique desktops I've been of the opinion that while they're not strictly for enthusiasts, the enthusiast market is one that boutiques can tap into by...
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Antec ISK 110 VESA Case Review: Just About As Small As It Gets
We've been having a good run of Mini-ITX cases lately, but most of those cases are designed to still be able to support what are essentially fully-powered systems: standard...
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SilverStone Sugo SG05: The Mini-ITX Standard Bearer
We've been looking at a few mini-ITX enclosures as of late, an interest sparked largely by the surprise success of the Bitfenix Prodigy and the general industry tend towards...
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M92 Tiny System Review: Pint-Sized Power
It's hard not to notice the direction computing is going, both in the enterprise and at home. Notebooks are getting thinner and lighter, tablets are taking off, and on...
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Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced Case Review: Little in Almost Every Way
At the risk of sounding foolish, more and more it seems that Mini-ITX is very much becoming the new Micro-ATX. Each subsequent hardware generation crams a little more performance...
65 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/26/2012
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