my 1.1Ghz NES PC (Mini-ITX)

[JoeKew1]

I recently put together a Mini-ITX NES PC, I know this has been done before, but I thought I'd post a couple links for people to check out
Mini write-up: http://not.hellalame.com/nes/
Picture Gallery: http://not.hellalame.com/nes/gallery.html

Quick System Specs:
[*] 1.1a Celeron
[*] Freetech P6F135 815 MoBo
[*]256MB RAM
[*]30GB Hitachi HD
[*]24x Slimline CD-ROM
[*]125 Watt 1U Power Supply

I also bought a PCI Video card (GF440mx w/64MB) with TV-Out I will be adding soon, and will most likely be making this a HTPC!

 

[DamageInc]

I swear to God, that is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

 

[Paperlantern]

and i am gonna have to agree, mucho kudos man

 

[Jeriko]

Ah - the memories.

Hey, how are you planning on cramming the video card in there? Gonna use a PCI ribbon riser and mount it over the MB or something?

-J

 

[Antoneo]

That is frikkin awesome. Wow. Excellent job, that is a piece of art. :beer:

 

[bastula]

Great work! Too bad we sold our NES a while ago. That's great inspiration for me to do something artsy...

 

[JoeKew1]

Originally posted by: Jeriko
Ah - the memories.

Hey, how are you planning on cramming the video card in there? Gonna use a PCI ribbon riser and mount it over the MB or something?

-J

I actually bought a PCI Vid Card that fit (barely!) standing up! I actually already finished installing it tonight! I will post more pics of it tomorrow. Here are some pics of the card I bought: Text

And since the built in video is AGP, I actually now have Dual Monitor Capabilies! Or even Tri monitor with TV-Out enabled! It's even bvetter then I had thought!

 

[amdskip]

Awesome job man

 

[dannybin1742]

this si one thing i've thought about, cool to see somone do it

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: DamageInc
I swear to God, that is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

 

[RedRonin]

I usually don't like these sorts of mods, but I really must applaud you on this! You have done a very good job, the result is very nice. I like that you worked so hard to maintain as much of the original appearance of the system as possible. Well done.

HUN-YA!

Red Ronin

 

[ElFenix]

holy crap that is sooo much better than the dreamcast mod! in fact, thats probably the best mod i've ever seen!

you know what i'd do with it? use it to EMU old NES games

 

[JoeKew1]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
holy crap that is sooo much better than the dreamcast mod! in fact, thats probably the best mod i've ever seen!

you know what i'd do with it? use it to EMU old NES games

Thats the plan for now, I went and got my old NES controllers last night, and somewhere on the net (have the link somewhere) there is schematics to wire them up to your paralell port, which is what I plan on doing.

Also, got my second PCI video card last night, and it works great! The first one I got I think had power issues. So I will also be adding that into the case soon too!

 

[Mingon]

Excellent job

 

[Zap]

Hey, is that a Kentucky Fried Chicken monitor? I used to have one, LOL.

 

[RedRonin]

A couple of days ago TechTV's The ScreenSavers did a report on a Nintendo PC. There is streaming video of the segment online at their site.

HUN-YA!

Red Ronin

 

[Guybrush]

That is amazing.

 

[p0ntif]

My hat is off to you. Youhave done an excellent job! Very nice!

 

[Armoth]

Nice job fitting everything in there. You must have a lot of patience.

 

[Delbert]

Wow. The NES PC that was on TechTV sold for $910 on ebay.

 

[Delbert]

Oh, and your looks real nice too joekewl

 

[JoeKew1]

Thanks for the links to the NES PC on eBay! I can't beleive that sold for $910!!! I might have to sell mine! (Or make another one to sell!)
Also, Thanks everyone for the compliments! (And yes that is a KFC monitor )
And yes, a fair amount of patience was involved, and I'm still waiting for another Video Card to come in too! I finally found a Low Profile PCI Radeon 7000! So this will be the 3rd video card I have bought for my NES! The first GF4mx didn't work with my mobo, the second card, gf2mx, runs super hot, and has a rather loud fan on it, so hopefully this new Radeon will be what I wanted from the sart!

Also the rather high temps inside the case with the video card installed have forced me to install a 50mm exhaust fan on the back of the case, these are a couple prelim pics, I have a quiet fan, and grill on order!
Picture One
Picture Two
With the fan installed, system temps are down 10-15 degrees Celsius!!! And the CPU Diode temps are down about 5C!

Lastly, I am thinking of adding some LED's (HD & LAN) just below the CD-ROM and maybe put some USB / FireWire ports in there too.

 

[nightowl]

Where did you buy your motherboard at? I have not seen any mini-itx boards other than the VIA models.

 

[JoeKew1]

Originally posted by: nightowl
Where did you buy your motherboard at? I have not seen any mini-itx boards other than the VIA models.

The motherboard was a little difficult to source, but I ended up going to pricewatch, and searching for "freetech". There was only 1 company that showed up as selling FreeTech components (KRI Computer I think), so I gave them a call, and asked if they could special order this board for me, turns out, they stock it! So I had one in my hand the next day since they are local to me!

 

[Zand]

http://www.junkmachine.com/nintendo/members/tutorial.shtml

This guy does it too, but he does it (no offense) better. You should check out his FAQ on modding your mouse and keyboard to go into the controller ports.