2014-05-13, 07:07
(2014-05-13, 05:50)Dougie Fresh Wrote:Geeezzz. I know that. Don't you think I know that?(2014-05-13, 00:34)ronbaby Wrote: Please look up eBay item number 141149319958.
I guess what you are saying is that that guy who is selling those cases (with heat sinks even) for a mere $3.31 USD including shipping somehow managed to find a way to manufacture and sell them without paying for any of the things you just mentioned.
Your mini-ITX motherboard isn't going to fit into that case and that heatsink won't adequately cool a FM1 processor.
I was trying to make a point about retail prices of simple boxes to hold boards.
Obviously, mini ITX is one helluva lot bigger than a Raspberry PI, but even if you assumed, just for the sake of argument, than a mini ITX case would require, say, just for argument's sake, 8 times the amount of material, labor, shipping, etc. etc. as that $3.31 Raspberry Pi case, that still comes out to only $26.48, shipped and delivered to my door, which is less than half of what sellers seem to be selling even the lowest of low end mini ITX cases (without power supply) for.
Somebody just needs to get some Chinese factory interested in doing the project. (And yes, today I've tried to make contact with the guy selling those RPI cases and I'll see what he says about maybe having his factory do a mini ITX box along the same lines. I mean what the hell! It doesn't hurt to ask!)
Quote:You'll still need a power supply too.
Well, yes, but it appears that that cost may be somewhere in the $7-17 USD range, which is not a big part of the overall equation (for a system build based on AM1H-ITX).
But, ah, as long as you mentioned it, I am wondering.... that AsRock AM1H-ITX board... assuming one were to go with the power-brick option, one would need what, exactly? I mean I understand it is 19V, but worst case, with every other thing imaginable also wired up, what would be the likely worst case amps (or watts)? In other words, would this one be likely to support the board and a maximal compliment of memory and peripherals?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/190959949667?lpid=82
I'm guessing that the answer is "yes". (And at only $7.08 USD that ain't bad at all. Certainly one helluva lot cheaper than a big honkin' ATX style power supply. And, ah, oh yea, quieter too.)
Or perhaps this 120 watt supply would be a better choice:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Denaq-Denaq-6....s/20836097
(That one also is still pretty damn inexpensive.)
But I'm not really a guy who can calculate the likely max power draw of this board + maximal peripherals, so somebody more familiar with these kinds of calculations is going to have to do that math for me.