mini itx D201GLY2 page up!

[hans007]

http://www.intel.com/products/...ard/D201GLY2/index.htm


looks like a great board... passively cooled now, new cpu AND sata ports.



http://www.buy.com/prod/d201gl...loc/101/205887511.html

 

[Zap]

Woot! Man, that heatsink is tall. Too bad OOS right now because it is tempting.

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: hans007
AND sata ports.

Don't think so, here's the I/O list.

Six USB 2.0 ports
One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support
One S-Video output port (optional)
One serial port
One parallel port
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
One PCI Conventional* bus connector

Thanks for the post.

Hermit

 

[razor2025]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: hans007
AND sata ports.

Don't think so, here's the I/O list.

Six USB 2.0 ports
One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support
One S-Video output port (optional)
One serial port
One parallel port
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
One PCI Conventional* bus connector

Thanks for the post.

Hermit

On the product details and image, there clearly is 2 SATA ports on it.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: razor2025
On the product details and image, there clearly is 2 SATA ports on it.

Yup. If you buy one and don't get the SATA ports, then they shipped you the older "GLY" version and not the "GLY2" update.

Now I just have to find a reason to buy one (once widely available).

 

[Aluvus]

Micro-ATX, not Mini-ITX. Still neat.

 

[kalster]

if you look at the pdf page its actually mini-itx that is compatible with micro-atx

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: kalster
if you look at the pdf page its actually mini-itx that is compatible with micro-atx

That's... odd. Not the first time Intel's specs have disagreed with each other, I suppose.

 

[AmberClad]

What's that round thing next to the PCI slot? (The thing that looks like a BIOS battery sitting on its edge.)

Another [possibly stupid] question -- what case would you put this in? I know you can put it into cases intended for larger form factors, but I only see one pure mini-ITX case at NewEgg.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
Micro-ATX, not Mini-ITX. Still neat.

intel does not consider mini - ITX a standard so they call it micro atx. it is clearly a mini itx board and fits in mini itx cases. the main thing abuot it is it needs 4 pin 12v (for what reason i dont know) since the new board with the new lower power chip is under 20 watts at load. which is about the same as the c7 1.5 boards (but faster)

 

[Ig]

Originally posted by: AmberClad
What's that round thing next to the PCI slot? (The thing that looks like a BIOS battery sitting on its edge.)

That is the battery.

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: Ig

Originally posted by: AmberClad
What's that round thing next to the PCI slot? (The thing that looks like a BIOS battery sitting on its edge.)

That is the battery.

Why don't board designers do that with regular boards, instead of stuffing the batteries into a socket? It looks like it'd be less irritating to remove.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: AmberClad

Originally posted by: Ig

Originally posted by: AmberClad
What's that round thing next to the PCI slot? (The thing that looks like a BIOS battery sitting on its edge.)

That is the battery.

Why don't board designers do that with regular boards, instead of stuffing the batteries into a socket? It looks like it'd be less irritating to remove.

those vertical sockets aren't really easier to get a battery out of. i'd say it might actually be harder sometimes depending on where its placed.

 

[kalster]

can anyone suggest a good small enclosure for this board, i was planning on using this m300 enclosure, (http://www.mini-box.com/M300-E...-Bootable-CF-Reader_2 but looks like the height of this board prevents me from using this enclosure

 

[sprockkets]

Sure, this one:

http://www.directron.com/s3stormseries.html

It has the 12v plug too, most don't

 

[boomhower]

Would this thing work for an well internet game box. I was looking at this for my 8 year old step son. Mainly for flash and Java games. No installed games what so ever, he has an xbox for that. It would be used on a 17in CRT possibly LCD. Anyone see any problems with it powering that set-up with a gig of ram. I will probably give ubuntu a shop but will more than likely end up with XP on it. Keep in mind he is an impatient 8 year old so if it is going to give a lot of hour glasses I am open to looking at something else.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: boomhower
Would this thing work for an well internet game box. I was looking at this for my 8 year old step son. Mainly for flash and Java games. No installed games what so ever, he has an xbox for that. It would be used on a 17in CRT possibly LCD. Anyone see any problems with it powering that set-up with a gig of ram. I will probably give ubuntu a shop but will more than likely end up with XP on it. Keep in mind he is an impatient 8 year old so if it is going to give a lot of hour glasses I am open to looking at something else.

i have had similar spec systems (i have a server that runs on a celeron 1.6 which is just barely faster than this) and it runs flash fine .

this is still a core 2 based celeron 1.2 ghz with 512k cache. first mac mini btw was a slower core 1 based core @ 1.5 ghz with 1mb cache. I'd say this is about equivalent to a p4 1.8-2.0 ghz or so. so that should be plenty , quiet and low power for your son.

 

[boomhower]

Thanks thats what I needed to know. I just cannot believe its going to cost me more for an ITX case than I paid for my 900.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: boomhower
Thanks thats what I needed to know. I just cannot believe its going to cost me more for an ITX case than I paid for my 900.

there are some cheap ones on ebay , but they raent really as small or quiet.