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Mini ITX board choices are blooming

Came across this one the other day. http://www.intel.com/products/...MJ/DG41MJ-overview.htm G41 chipset, regular PCI slot, supports the -s series 65 watt quad cores, and runs about $95. Also supports up to 8GB of RAM, the other two Intel boards only support 4GB.
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- Post #20
- May 2, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building
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Geeks Refurbished 24" Soyo LCD (possibly S-MVA) - Back in Stock!

My box was marked 6ms, has a tag that marks it as a refurb, but all the packaging was sealed in the same way my original two new ones were. No signs of use, which doesn't mean it wasn't refurbished, just that it was repackaged like a new LCD. M0RPH, non-glossy screen on mine. I have no bad...
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- Post #40
- Mar 1, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Geeks Refurbished 24" Soyo LCD (possibly S-MVA) - Back in Stock!

All of mine are marked "2007 07" as far as I can tell(one is on an LCD arm and I can't quite read it). No idea when they started the change, but the earlier date the better your chances.
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- Post #34
- Feb 26, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Geeks Refurbished 24" Soyo LCD (possibly S-MVA) - Back in Stock!

Check the manufacture date listed on the label, that's a start. I bought two new back in '07, just bought a third that arrived today. So far so good, no dead pixels or weird lines. Same manufacture date as one of my originals, so it's also an s-mva.
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- Post #32
- Feb 26, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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I thinks I may have bought something worth a lot more then I paid for it.

GuitarPort has been out for a while, 3-4 years at least if not longer. Line 6 was a round for quite a while before the GuitarPort, though. Started out priced pretty high, then was dropped to ~$100 about two years ago. I picked one up on ebay a long time back, but haven't used it much lately. A...
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- Post #6
- Feb 6, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anandtech Member Case Gallery!

Pentium-M system in an old Fallout meter case http://www.widefault.com/pmrm/p-msff.htm Lower powered system in the same case, built as a winterm. http://www.widefault.com/ft/ft.htm Core 2 Duo Mobile SFF built from an old breadbox http://www.widefault.com/35c2d/mermini.htm Celeron-M...
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- Post #122
- Jan 18, 2009
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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[DEAD]Bag of Crap @ woot

After 3 years I finally got all the way through. Now the wait to see what comes.
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- Post #46
- Dec 25, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Ion Platform

Sign me up for a few of the reference boards if they can keep the price near what a Via PicoITX board costs. My current small Atom options are all around $400 and quite a bit larger at 4" x 6"(3.5" Embedded Form Factor). Hell, I could fit two of the reference boards into the space of one of the...
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- Post #9
- Dec 17, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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Mini ITX board choices are blooming

If you have a Harbor Freight Tools nearby, they usually have these on sale. http://www.harborfreight.com/c...m.taf?Itemnumber=39103 Not great, but will do the job. Make sure you have some C-clamps to hold the material in place, comes with a hold down bar but nothing else. I have a two foot...
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- Post #16
- Oct 28, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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EEE vs. Mini 9

Well, I had mentioned previously I was going to a 64GB SSD in my Mini 9. That won't be happening as the new SSD is about a half inch too long to fit. Looking at a few other boards I have with the mini-PCI-e slot, it won't fit ANY of them. It will supposedly fit the EEE, but from pictures it's a...
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- Post #18
- Oct 28, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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Mini ITX board choices are blooming

I gave up on finding mini-ITX cases I like and am building my own. Seems like a majority are designed for the VIA boards, which means inadequate cooling for anything faster or a power supply that can't support much of a load. Also seen a few that mount the hard drive or CD in a place that will...
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- Post #14
- Oct 27, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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EEE vs. Mini 9

It's a mini-PCI-e card.
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- Post #9
- Oct 19, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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EEE vs. Mini 9

I have a Mini 9. It's foolish to buy anything but the base model, unless you want the webcam. Remove two screws, pop off the rear cover, and the memory, SSD, and wireless card are all right there. Takes maybe 5 minutes to upgrade the memory, a bit longer to change the SSD. Mine has been upgraded...
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- Post #3
- Oct 19, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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Mini ITX board choices are blooming

And that doesn't count the four of these, two of these, and two of these. Oh yeah, and this with one of these running a Celeron-M 520. Yeesh, I better get going.
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- Post #8
- Oct 14, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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Mini ITX board choices are blooming

The CPU on the ECS is a Shelton core, basically a cache-less Banias Pentium-M. Very low power, performance pretty much equal to a PIII at the same speed. I have one in this mini-system. I've also had the socket 479 version of the ECS board, but paid a hell of a lot more. Decent board, very...
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- Post #5
- Oct 13, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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Why did you pick your Anandtech SN?

First IT contract job, it was the machine name for the new Dells we were rolling out. When I saw it, I exclaimed loudly "What the hell is a wide fault?" Then it was explained it was WI Default, as in Wisconsin Default. There were other machine images named ildefault, nydefault, and vadefault for...
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- Post #58
- Aug 24, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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question about old P3 duallie boards, Intel chipsets

Neither GX nor BX natively support the 133MHz bus. There were some with limited overclocking that would allow it, but it also overclocks the AGP from 66 to ~88MHz and some ran PCI at 44MHz. The bad thing about the Thunder 2500 and most older Serverworks boards is the IDE was pretty lackluster...
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- Post #4
- Aug 17, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Updated 9/20: Bing cashback

If you use RoadRunner, there's a redirect being done that keeps you from getting into the Get Cashback link. Go here, http://ww23.rr.com/prefs.php Disable the redirect and it should work.
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- Post #164
- Jun 22, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Gratuitious member vehicle picture threads

The daily driver 1996 Chevy Caprice LT1 The project car 1956 Chevy "parade car" Needs a LOT of work before it's done, but not a lot to get it back onto the road while we work on the rest. She'll end up a rat-rod-esque satin black, red and white interior, maybe some flames or...
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- Post #45
- May 16, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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What has been you favorite car(s)?

Drove a 1978 Chevy Malibu station wagon through college and still miss it to this day. 305ci, 2bbl carb, automatic, metallic brown with bright orange wheels. High-back buckets from a junked Subaru that somehow matched the color AND pattern of the interior. Rear door handles removed, could only...
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- Post #12
- Apr 20, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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Nvidia's <$45 processing platform

Pretty sure the LX is a mild tweak of the Geode GX, which is a renamed Cyrix MediaGX. Performance on the GX is about equal to a Pentium-MMX at 2/3 the speed. I don't think the LX is much better, the biggest changes were in the supporting chipset and memory.
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- Post #27
- Apr 14, 2008
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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PNY 8600GTS - 69.99 AR

Cheapest 8600GTS at Newegg is $79.99 after rebate, the rest are in the $130 range. Seems like a decent enough deal to me.
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- Post #4
- Mar 17, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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**Official** Show Off Your Gear Thread

I've got a mini-ITX quad setup waiting for an idea right now. I might use it to build a media server box, something to store and rip DVDs and mp3s. It's not high in priority right now, I've got two things I want to build before I deal with the quad. I just don't want to wait too long and have...
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- Post #10
- Mar 17, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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**Official** Show Off Your Gear Thread

My Work PC Something Smaller Something Awesome, at least to me. And my server cube Specs are off on a couple, I seem to be in a constant update cycle. Yeah, I like making my own, and the smaller the better.
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- Post #8
- Mar 16, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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Soyo 24" for $279.99 @ Officemax online and B&M

I've got one on my HTPC right now. Running Vista MCE, an 8400GS, ATI Theater 550 tuner and analog cable. Looks pretty good considering the source material.
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- Post #72
- Mar 8, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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New mini-ITX board by Intel at CeBIT

Considering the cheapest current LGA775 mini-ITX is well over $300 and has a regular PCI slot and GMA950 for video, I'd gladly pay $130 for this one.
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- Post #4
- Mar 6, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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Soyo 24" for $279.99 @ Officemax online and B&M

Damn, I've got two of these already and now I'm really tempted to get another. They're a great deal at $299.99, $279.99 is amazing.
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- Post #14
- Feb 17, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Embedded PC's

The C3 Via chips are about the same performance as a PIII at 2/3 the clock speed. So the 1.5GHz C3 is at best equivalent to a PIII 1GHz. The C7 is better, but still slower than the same clock speed PIII. The board Zap linked above is very lower power, about 25 watts average. The Via boards...
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- Post #7
- Jan 17, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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Embedded PC's

www.bwi.com www.globalamericaninc.com www.neutronexpress.com I've bought multiple times from BWI, very good service. They've also managed to get me some items so quickly that they came with a burned CD-R with the manual and drivers. Expect to pay at least $300 for a basic board. I've...
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- Post #2
- Jan 16, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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Shuttle's new $199 KPC Linux box (or $99 barebones)

Case seems larger than it needs to be, but at the same time looks like it'd be easy enough to mod it to fit an optical drive. Looks like a regular Shuttle with a solid faceplate, wonder if the internals are changed at all?
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- Post #5
- Jan 14, 2008
- Forum: Barebones
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booting from flash devices

I don't think you can do one card for boot, others in RAID. With the flash cards I have, I haven't been able to install XP successfully with only one card. Haven't tried anything else, since my goal is to get an XP system running. You can do 2 RAID arrays, but that will screw performance up...
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- Post #10
- Jan 4, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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booting from flash devices

Heh, playing with the QuadCF right now. So far I'm having a hard time finding flash cards it likes. A-Data cards don't work, it doesn't always see them on bootup. I have one other card that works fine, but so far I can't get it to work with a single CF card. Waiting for more cards to do more...
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- Post #8
- Jan 3, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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booting from flash devices

This is the only SD to IDE adapter I've seen, but I haven't looked much. Prefer Compact Flash
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- Post #4
- Jan 2, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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booting from flash devices

There's some pretty basic info out there, but nothing that helpful. I've been working with flash setups for a while, what kind of info are you looking for?
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- Post #2
- Jan 2, 2008
- Forum: Laptops
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24" Soyo back on sale @ Office Max thru 1/5

I've got two of them still going strong. One bought the beginning of September, one bought at the end of the same month. Not a single issue with either of them so far.
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- Post #23
- Dec 30, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Is Centrino Duo different than Core 2 Duo?

Here's what I have on Socket M vs. Socket P All Yonah Core Solo, Core Duo, Celeron-M 4xx series = Socket M, no 64 bit Celeron-M 5xx series, C2D T5200, T5300, T5500, T5600, T7200, T7400, T7600 = Socket M, 64 bit C2D T5250, T5450, T7100, T7250, T7300, T7500, T7700, T7800, X7800, X7900 =...
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- Post #10
- Dec 24, 2007
- Forum: Laptops
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D201GLY2

Nice price, just wish I didn't have three extra mini-ITX boards already. Really need to get back to case designs for them.
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- Post #43
- Dec 13, 2007
- Forum: Laptops
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D201GLY2

The heatsink is removable, but finding a replacement might be tough. It uses hooks and loops on the board similar to the way i865/875 MCH heatsinks were held on.
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- Post #40
- Dec 11, 2007
- Forum: Laptops
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D201GLY2

That's about the best you can do, although it might be easier to find the power brick somewhere else. Might be able to find one on ebay, just make sure you're getting one with the right size barrel. Bought a few cheapies myself, only to find out they were too small to fit the center pin on the...
- widefault
- Post #38
- Dec 10, 2007
- Forum: Laptops
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looking for cheap, small, and low heat system

Intel D201GLY2 is a cheap starting point. Mini-ITX, 1.2GHz Core2-based Celeron, SATA, very low power, etc. Board is about $75, should be trivial to get a system going for under $300 using one of these.
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- Post #2
- Dec 4, 2007
- Forum: Laptops

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