excelent design.and evry good idea how to introduce people to PC building. If you wnet extra mile and used SATA instead of IDE, you could have more connectors,and thus and a DVD-RW to the box for example. Still, excelent. Will buy when it comes to Switzerland.

cool but it is really sad that you don't offer some of your fanless configuration like this.
from what I heard from the video the whole thing is quite noisy.
why don't you use a very narrow 120 cm fan on top of the case instead of that probably 4-5 cm fan?
that should bring it down to 800 rpm plus it will be almost silent.
anyhow it is a great idea but as I said I would like to see the fanless option and it would be really great to have more s-ata or ide connectors cause I know with all the maniacs downloading tons of videos and stuff they would like to make a file server out of it and with one controller on board and the option to put 4 hdd it will beat anything on the market because most of the solutions are over 400 dollars.

A bit of metalwork and the case could be used to keep this cool....bye bye fan, hello a bit more space internally.

wouldn't exactly be that portable with a 120cm fan.
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.Then again I guess you mean 120mm.

THAT IS ONE CREEPY MOTHERFUCKER

Let's just hope that Via's classic IPX problem doesn't surface once again. The inability for Joe Average to buy a particular interesting Via ITX product, simply because there isn't a retailers or online-shops offering it.

$300 for the kit? The Intel D201GLY2 is going to take a chunk out of that. Are people willing to pay such a premium for small? SATA would improve cabling and air flow.

No antistatic measures required then?

how many watts will this system consume with typical drives attached ?

i spots a fatal flaw in the design... no dedicated ps/2 ports for input devices... usb might be faster but on an ultra compact you need all the cpu cycles you can get without having usb input devices stealing them lol

mass storage ports should be SATA. ram support could be better if it can support up to 2gb of SODIMM, whether single-slot or dual-slots.

This is great for DIY car audio system ! I believe it shoulD fit into standard DIN housing in car. All I would like to know is what kind of power does it use, 220V or 12v with power adapter included ?

Awesome for LAN parties. This is a portable gaming machine.

Portable gaming machine? You go to solitaire LAN parties?

nice !!1 , i miss the ps/2 ports , what is the power consumption of this
toy ? , also is really hard to find this type of boards.

From the Pico-ITX spec white paper:
Power inputs are +3.3, +5, and +12V; Max 22W, Peak 25W.
There are headers for USB2.0 (x4), 7.1 audio, PS/2 mouse/keyboard, COM port, LVDS, DVI.
The actual press release has more details:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=1727

Awesome Video Stew, like always.
And as i mentioned already in various news and comments before, this device is just amazing.
Glad that you guys got rid of any ps2 connectors. Hell guys, we are living in the 21st century. Need a floppy drive connector too or what?
I am pretty sure that sub 30W machines are possible with it, so never mind about the fan. Set the voltage to 7V and you are fine (and you won't hear it at all).

Sascha
Epiacenter

Cheers Sascha. Well said sir. This fella is incredibly small, no? I just held it in my hand thinking "this is a full x86 computer?" It really hits home just how far VIA's miniaturization has come and makes me ponder how far they'll take it in the future. And the truth is, it's pretty quiet too.

Cheers.

I really enjoyed this one.

Too bad only LAN Port...
Would have been nice as a firewall/proxy.

From Via:There is also a SATA connector on the EPIA Pico-ITX mainboard, so you can choose to install a SATA hard drive externally. (SATA cable is not included in this package.)

I think you can't see this toy as a standalone desktop PC. I've ordered one and i'm going to use is as a web/ftp server, print server and a network storage device. No screen, keyboard or mouse connected. Lan is the only thing you need to keep it running via putty or something simular!

Would this not be a great machine for WEB-Server?

This thing would be awesome hooked up to a nice LCD TV, you could stream your movies and music to this thing on your TV.... Awesome.

how are you going to install the operating system om that little thing when there is no where to connect the disc drive.

sounds good, i am going to check this with VIA C7-M 794 2.0GHz 400MHz but in this processor max power (TDP)is 20 W, i m confused with it's power supply , can this bear it this processor or not, because in this kit they provide VIA C7-M ULV and its max TDP is 3.5 w, may be this board is gone to damege with 2.0GHz, but when its clicked then its gone to be a very amazing device

In Reply to coolfrost6. We recommend actually booting from a USB device, e.g. a simple memory stick with a bootable image of the operating system. It would also be possible to boot from a USB connected disk drive, if say you had an IDE to USB connector. Perhaps I should contemplate doing a 'How to' vid to make things clearer.

Valid question though.

Cheers.

My 12 yr old daughter ordered one of the pico-itx boards with 1gb of ram. She is mounting it in a cheap 1/2 size violin and plans to use it as her stand alone PC. It runs quiet and cool. It also does everything she wants it to with ubuntu linux installed. She is turning in the project for an invention convention submission at her middle school.

I have been fascinated with the small size.

fanless is ok?

have space for HD?

when d5d hear5vet t6 sw5tzer3and?

"No antistatic measures required
then?"

Nobody takes "anti-static measures" when building a system, other than making sure to touch the metal part of your chassis from time to time. I've been building systems for sixteen years and I've never seen anyone use any other method or device. Totally unnecessary.

@ "Nobody takes "anti-static measures" when building a system..."

Well i took it pretty bad personally when i got a static shock off Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300. $350 of bricked processor. Nice.

Always use protection or she'll be bricked in the morning!

Good system. But lacks SATA port and the mini itx Intel D201GLY2 is fanless and MUCH cheaper. I like small systems, but the price premium is just too high for something that miss SATA, and add a fan. I still prefers Intel D201GLY2 despite the larger size.

Extremely cool, I really want to get one - but it costs 320€ (~460$) in Germany, which is a tad more than the 300$ mentioned =(
I wouldn't care too much about the hefty price tag if it at least had a Gigabit NIC...

can u play gunbound on that pc
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The system actually does come with a SATA port. Main Board picture If you look at the lower left corner of this picture, you will see the SATA port kinda peeking out to the left of the grey heatsink and "below" the IDE hard drive connection.

Anyone know whether or not there is support for an optical drive of any kind?

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for those saying how much nicer the Intel D201GLY2 board is, remmeber that this board is 75% smaller then intels Mini-ITX board. Intels measures in at 17.1CM X 17.1CM, and this board is 10CM x 7.2CM. To help visualize this size compare Standard DVD case to a standard playing card. The intel board is running a 533MHz Celeron, adn the Via is running a 1GHz, both machines max out at a Gig of memory and have similar inputs/outputs, while the Intel board does have a PCI slot and one additional SATA port, I think the VIA's board based on it's size and speed is a slightly better offering, escpecialy when one considers the application of the size. me I'm using 2 of these to embed into my car as a onboard Smart system, providing both entertainment, and vehicale feedback!

Gostei muito do lançamento e inclusive isso pode ser o fim do desktop na mesa, pois se fizerem uma parceria com os fabricantes de monitores LCD, podera embutir nele, e assim atender a muitas empresas que usam em area comercial onde não precisa de leitor de CD e ou se precisar podera usar os leitor de CD externo.

parabens!

André Delfino
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will be getting one soon

One "out of contest" question for stew: wich kind of screwdriver did you used for the assembly?

ASSS MONKEY!!!

I can't hear you for the bloody music!
Unwatchable.

"This video is no longer available."

Oh, poor EEtimes!

"This video is no longer available."

Oh, poor EEtimes!

"This video is no longer available."

Oh, poor EEtimes!

为什么不是中文教程

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I just put mine together last night. I figure the price (US$300) is about $100 more than what I would pay for the D201GLY2 with all of the accessories (case, power supply,...). It runs off +12
V -- perfect for car application.

I'll have to get special SATA cables to see if my 250GB drive will work. Also need to make a mod to the power cable to power the SATA drive. (I think that should be doable.)

Where can I get the VT1625M multimedia module the user manual refers to?

i agree "that is one creepy mother"

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Where can I get the VT1625M multimedia module the user manual refers to?
if any one knows, email me at knowtrash at networld dot com

I have one of the units.
I have WinXPPro and WinCE loaded so far. I am trying to find the right drivers to load Linux, but the Viaarena.com site is not the best for finding drivers that only pertain to the pico motherboard. For work, I need to load it with WinXPe. Again it would be nice if the drivers were componitized already. All this would be multi-bootable for test purposes.

I wish it were fanless and had a better temperature range, 0C to 50C. I would like to use it in the car. it gets alot colder than 0c here.

Hmmmm

It's awesome how a bunch of you keep saying "SATA Would be better for cabling!!!"

Did you actually WATCH the fucking video? There's no cable. It's a very small, compact PCB that connects the drive to the board, and going with SATA would improve the design ZERO.

IDE has plenty of performance for that little CPU.

Soy de Ecuador y quisiera saber cuanto es el precio y si incluye alguna bateria, podria ser de 9v.

New Toy & Nice Shit .... i like it

I am trying to reuse an 80 gig Seagate SATA drive that was pulled from a Mac notebook awhile back to install a larger HD.

Everything installs ok. I then try to install W2k, and it chokes when it gets to the HD.

Is there a step to interrupt the Via setup to then reformat the HD? Phoenix BIOSes use F10, I think, but that does not seem to work with Via.