Hello there !

I love building small computers and especially if they serve a specific purpose. I've been looking around for a long time to find a cpu equivalent for the period of 2001-2005 , running WinXP that could serve as a gaming retro PC but in mini ITX... and I think I found it!

This is KONTRON 886LCD-M/mITX.

I also got an Asus 6800 V9999 128MB AGP on it currently, I kinda like it- a bit noisy (can by adjusted by ATITool when it doesn't crash) but it benches really well I believe!

Now I've been looking into miniITX cases to house this. If I can't find one... I might just build one- I've been learning parametric design and 3d printing, so hopefully ... one day.

I'm also looking into using a FLEX ATX PSU or a Pico-PSU if it can handle the 6800 AGP. The motherboard manual says that it uses ~37W on full load on a similar configuration (minus the 6800 ofc).
Does anyone know how I could measure the wattage of this thing in full load? Will a normal plug-in wattage meter work ok for this?

Additionally, I'm considering on how to capitalize on the fact it also has a PCI slot 😀
I'm torn between a Sound Blaster card for the Joypad port / midi support , or an older GPU to make this also a DOS retro machine- what do you think peeps?

Thank you for this great resource you've built here, and your time 😉

Oops, forgot to mention, this sports an Intel Pentium M at 1.8Ghz, 512MB RAM currently and a 4GB CF card. But the manual says the RAM goes up to 1GB so I'm also looking into upgrading that!

#Another edit!
Forgot to say how stoked I am that I can output to HDMI using a DVI adapter! Couldn't believe it. It also runs 1920x1080 just fine! At 72hz to boot! It feels like a good balance between old and new.