Small Form Factor Mini-DTX

Yepp, Intel will have to make something new in the memory direction to make it work. It's sadly because the memories are to far away from the north bridge it doesn't work.

Just found a big progress. Was just looking at Silverstones site, and they are already having DTX as a supported mobo size in their mini HTPC Milo series.

 

Thats not a progress, DTX is build for to work with ATX cases.

 

Ahh. The progress is they mention it. The first (atleast) I found.
Just don't understand why only that one of their series is mentioned to support it. Thay make so many other series...

 

Albatron is also following on Gigabyte with its KD690-AM2.
http://www.albatron.com.tw/English/news/news_detail.asp?new=default&news_id=255 (specs and most facts for mini-itx version, the mini-dtx will be the same but with a pci-e x1 slot as well)

It sounds good, still no pci-e x16 but the ATI 690g chip can compensate some.
Guessing it will be released for market in June this year.

 

Yoink , Another not C2duo ill admit.

They can be had but youre always going to pay more because;

Its a smaller market, economies of scale have less effect.

Theyre industrial boards, built to a higher spec (better caps etc)

Making things compact costs, an ultra portable costs twice as much as a similarly specd mainstream laptop.

Hopefully DTX will start to address the first two points and the third one is just the price you pay for wanting a small, fast computer.

Moriquendi

Edit: stumbled across this today.