flex/microATX mini barebones + A64? will it handle..

[SSibalNom]

I'm planning on doing a complete mobo/cpu/ram change pretty soon but I want to keep my Radeon 9800pro. I now use a full tower case, but I'd really like to make one of those tiny tiny comps w/ just one CDRW and a floppy which is all I really need. I'd like to make it an A64 box, whichever CPU is best price/performance when I buy it. Although, I've only seen one of these mini barebones that will take A64 and it only takes the 1600mhz A64 (not sure which # it is). So I just have a few questions:

Anyone know a place that has a large selection of miniATX A64 barebone setups?

Do these things have enough power to carry a 9800pro?

is there any performance loss from a full size to a tiny motherboard?


any help would be appreciated, thanks.

 

[sandorski]

You'll have to wait awhile I think. I haven't even heard of a 1600mhz A64 though, you sure of that ?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Shuttle is supposedly coming out with / has an A64 cube, you might check Sudhian.com and the SFF forum here to see if anyone has it yet and whether it can support a 9800 pro. Also see the A64 3000+ updates to A64 threads, this looks like a great price/performance CPU since it's around $200 instead of $400.

 

[Markfw]

The only problem I see is heat. A 9800pro and an Athlon 64 3000+ put out a lot of heat for that small box, and would require a lot of cooling. I wouldn't recommend that combo.

 

[SSibalNom]

the barebones

those are the only ones I see out... as far as 1600mhz that's what it says, but maybe they mean something else..... so anyone on here got one of these? I'm gonna check sudhian.com right now...

 

[DaveSimmons]

I think the 1600MHz is just the A64 equivalent of the 800 MHz FSB on a PC, not the 2 GHz sppeed of the 300+ / 3200+.

 

[SSibalNom]

ah.... so that combo could run any a64 then ?

 

[splice]

Originally posted by: SSibalNom
ah.... so that combo could run any a64 then ?

I don't see why not. It's using the nForce3 chipset, so you should be fine. I would seriously doubt they would limit the cpu speed via the BIOS.