Interested in building smallest desktop possible(advice please)

[spaceman]

im thinking as my pet project im going to build a very small system and wanted to know which case i could get that is tiny and good to start the building process.Want it to be small,relatively quiet and of course powerful

 

[CompuRenTech]

As a small business owner and Tech at a retail computer shop have dealt with a few desktops that are called bookshelf PC's. They are litteraly about the size of an encyclopedia. They have just enough room for one drive, cd rom. and 2 pci cards. They have had built in video, sound, modem, nic. I have had them in the past at the shop for both celeron, and pIII S370. the barebones set usually sells for $399, (case and board, plus cd rom and floppy drive, just add chip ram, and hard drive) on a celron set. Celeron board went up to 566, PIII went to 700. I can't get these anymore since my vendor is out of stock and isn't buying more. (something about not being popular I guess) But I know they are out there. I liked them. The whole board unit slid out like an old Mac Performa to add components or perform maintenance. Look around the web. I am sure they can be found easily.

 

[spaceman]

that sound interesting thnx for the input,i wondering if heat will be an issue in something that small.

 

[CompuRenTech]

A resounding yes. That is the only issues I have seen with the ones I have sold. That is why the boards are limited is my guess.

 

[mcveigh]

saw abit has a "netpc" comes w/ case again everything on Mobo. it needs, CPU, ram hard drive and cdrom, I've been thinking about buying one myself.
I'll see if I can find the link...

downloading 2.4 kernel eating into my dialup connection...

edit- hang on might not be abit, i'm sleepy

how big is this kernel?

 

[mcveigh]

black net pc's here (looks cool but expensive)
anywho it was tyan i was thinking about
http://www.amptron.com/ check them out also
I know it's possible to get them for around 200 maybe under

 

[mcveigh]

asus netpc here
why am i still awake?
dial up sucks--- 23MB kernel 2.4 in da house! (just need to try it out)

these look like fun, i could put one in the bathroom
I read somewhere that these little things are designed to be on their side for proper heat dissapation, but they still can get hot...


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