I'm quite happy with my ASUS P2B-B with is a Baby-AT, but wanted to know if ANYONE made something smaller, even proprietary (seeing that mini-ITX didn't exist back then). I really only need a single ISA and PCI slot (or two PCI slots if no video) to make a small Win98 gaming nirvana machine.
An acceptable substitution would be something that had an ESS Solo or something SB Pro compatible integrated.
Take a look at the Optiplex GX1 SFF. I don't know if it's the absolute smallest BX system, but it's about the size of a usual ITX desktop, and it has onboard video, onboard NIC, a Crystal CS4236 audio chip, which has passable SBPro compatibility, as well as two PCI slots.
The smallest one I have is the Intel SR440BX.
mATX = Not that small really, though it does contain a full spec Nvidia chip with RAM. Sound chip is Creative (Ensoniq) Audio PCI 64V.
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do I see a vibra 16 chip on that board too?
no chance, there is only one creative chip which I described above.
--> ISA Soundcard Overview // Doom MBF 2.04 // SetMul
Ebay "pc104" Before ther was ITX there was pc104. pc104 died out with the pentium for the most part. however I have a pentium 3 SBC that supports it so it stuck around for a LONG time. That said, most pc014 stuff is under "business & industrial" on ebay
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
here is a 1.4ghz pentium M model: http://www.rtd.com/pc104/cm/886/158886/CMX158886-1400.htm
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A stack of them look AWESOME if not godly overpriced: http://www.ebay.com/itm/270997032853
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Interesting stuff...
One small board you could consider is the ms6147. It's one of the smallest ATX boards I've ever seen.
It has 3x PCI and one ISA, but doesn't seem to support coppermines.
Another small board is the 35-8929, but this one has the VIA 693-something chipset. It does have AGP though.
See attachment,
It does not get any smaller then this, 440BX, P-III 500..700MHz, 128MB. But no PCI/ISA, not even a 12 Volt rail, so not a real option.
Oh wait the PDF does mention PCI and ISA.
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I got to get me one of those fanless Slot 1 CPU coolers. That would make my current P3/800 system fully fanless. I have a fanless powersupply, and my GeForce 4 AGP is fanless as well. With a CF IDE setup, the system would be perfectly silent. A little off topic, but that system is a 440BX, the Abit BX6 v2. Not exactly a small BX mobo though.
