Why have mini-ITX systems become so popular?
>>54803040
Not everyone wants, needs, or has room for a full tower?
>>54803040
Because they are so kawaii, anon.
Seemed like a perfect choice for my server/media center solution.
They're cute, more challenging to build, and the novelty of being able to fit whatever you want into that small a space still hasn't worn off
>>54803253
this desu senpai. The idea of cramming stuff in a tiny tower has always been a lucrative idea (see: lanboxes) but previously mITX boards haven't been up to par. Since Z77 it's become easier and nowadays you can even get an X99 board that'll take ITX.
The ability to put them anywhere is useful. I'd like to build one myself just because my ATX mid tower is fuckhuge and I don't even use all the space it provides. I just wish they were cheaper
>>54803287
errr....
>>54803297
Really it's the board that's the most expensive part. It's hard to find cheap ITX socketed boards.
>>54803253
You're cute.
>>54803066
unlike that hamster
>>54803040
Thermal loads are dropping fast so there's no need for full ATX Builds unless you're going for a multi Core + multi GPU builds or servers.
It's one of those things if you don't need it to scale you don't need it to start big.
What's a good small case with excellent cooling abilities for mITX and has space for at least 4 drives as well as a full sized PSU?
>>54803040
1. Power and cooling requirements have reduced significantly as a side-effect of recent forays into mobile tech, you no longer need a tower for all but the highest-end configurations.
2. Compact systems already offer most of the features you're ever going to use, so the days of needing many PCI slots and tons of storage slots have been made somewhat obsolete.
3. Obvious stuff like size and weight, you can move it to another room if need be with little effort, or even take it on a trip.
4. It's not a fucking tower.
There's one that looks like a microwave, and it's made by the only case brand I buy from anyway. So I plan on buying one, building a work PC, and turning my HTPC build into a "cable box" for my flatscreen.
I never really liked big computers anyway. Clashes with my art-deco living situation.
>>54803396
You take that back you double nigger.
>>54803602
Make a umaruchan edition /dpt/ then
>>54803411
NZXT Manta
>>54803061
>>54803727
Thanks.
>>54803040
Me with the brown hair
mini-itx is so expensive
>>54804178
It's noticeably more expensive, but not prohibitively so. There is definitely a premium on the smaller parts
>>54803040
Don't know, but I did a ITX build for my mom because she just wanted something small that would fit on top of her desk.
Consider this:
You need a computer that's decent enough to do most tasks on Windows or Linux that are not extremely graphical.
You don't want a laptop for this purpose, but something perhaps a bit more powerful at home.
You want something small and discrete.
They are pretty much perfect for this. My dad is excited about upgrading his piece of shit to a system with a mini-ITX board and all. He spends most of the day at home and he doesn't do anything intensive, but he's been always bothered about the size of the good old towers, even the microATX ones.
>>54804883
You can still get a lot of power with an ITX build.
>>54804999
Problem is availability and sometimes price. There's fewer motherboards out there, fewer cases as well. And if you plan to have a good GPU those are usually big.
But I would completely fucking get a tiny "rig" if I could.
>>54804999
You can get more performance out of an ITX board than ATX.
>>54803819
>he doesn't want something
>according to your logic
>he must be poor
>>54803040
They're cute. More technology should be cute.
>>54805708
>green text
>no argument
I win
>>54803040
Is she drinking a bucket of cum?
>>54805833
Why does someone not wanting something make them poor?
There was no argument in the first place, you literally made a baseless statement
>>54803409
>Thermal loads are dropping fast
?
>>54803040
what animu?
>>54803445
where does this power/heat output increased with age meme come from? old shit ran way cooler than the 50-100W TDP abominations on the desktop today, the reason ITX builds are popular now is because minimalism is hip and most people who buy desktops don't use more than a single PCI-e slot anyway.
>>54805858
Lewd
>>54805900
Sansha Sanyou
>>54805900
Boku no Gentoo
>>54805900
Boku no Semendemon
>>54803040
Same reasons why people like loli.
>>54805858
Ice cream actually.
Why wouldn't they be? The fact that I can pack 8 cores, 64GB RAM, and 16TB of drive space into a tiny cube is fucking awesome.
>>54805708
gtfo non american
>>54807920
>drink
>ice cream
>>54808136
So you have never had a frappe before? The fuck is wrong with you.
>>54808316
frappes are disgusting
>>54803819
>he thinks mITX cases and motherboards are cheap
>He thinks sub 1000$ parts are expensive
Wew lad
>>54808330
No they aren't. They are amazing.
>>54803040
gamers
>>54808401
No, they're disgusting.
>>54808441
I have to ask what type of frappes you have had.
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>>54808343
Most of them are pretty cheap. I guess it depends on what you define as cheap.
>>54808653
If it's coffee flavoured it's inherently shit. Frappes are coffee drinks.
>>54808729
>Frappes are coffee drinks
No they aren't. I'm not talking about something from McDonalds anon. I'm talking about a few scoops of ice cream, some milk, stirred to hell in a cup.
>>54808838
Sounds like a milkshake.
>>54803040
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>>54808864
Some might call it that. Others not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkshake
It doesn't matter. Strawberry frappes are fucking amazing.
>>54808950
I've never heard of a non-coffee frappe in my life. I'll continue to think of them as such. Frappes are shit because coffee flavoured anything is shit.
>>54808980
Frappes don't have to be coffee exclusive. It's clear that we have two definitions for the same word. In your words, I am talking about a thick milkshake (ice cream and milk).
>>54809019
So I've been told. I think of a frappe as a coffee drink, coffee drinks are shit, frappes are shit.
>look at me being a special snowflake using stupid words for a milkshake
-you
>>54803040
>5 retards who like to post their shitty computer in every battlestation thread buy one
>hurr why are they so popular
Because some gaymers only need a GPU and motherboard.
>>54803040
dumb makiposter
>>54803040
Because of gayming.
It's hard to lug your full tower from place place.
>>54809053
Get your eyes checked.
>>54809042
If you were from New England, you would have understood. Nothing more to say than that.
>>54809202
Sorry I don't sue shitty regional definitions. Just call it what everybody else does.
>>54809292
Not sure why you are making a big deal about a word. Move on.
>>54809361
Because it's called a milkshake.
>>54803040
because small things are cute
>>54809491
>2.5" drive is a child
What does that make a 1" drive? A fetus?
>>54809566
But anon fetuses aren't human beings :^)
>>54809566
btw look how the family's happy now everyone is united :)
>>54803040
You just wanted an excuse to post that webm
>>54809767
>>54803819
>portability = poor
>>54808316
Frappes are also unhealthy
>>54810970
And the sky is blue on a sunny day.
>>54811731
The sky is actually aquamarine.
>>54811738
>>54811731
The sky actually does not have a color. What you interpret as blue is merely particles of light that were not reflected by the ionosphere. The sky itself is merely a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen that are colorless in their gaseous states.
>>54811799
is he gay or something?
>>54811799
>you will never have an onee-chan who will bathe with you, playfully bites you, presses her nips on your back, and take you're virginity
Why even live?
>>54811740
dumb tripfag that im about to block
>>54811799
sauce pls
>>54809202
I live in Rhode Island and I've never heard a milkshake called a frappe unless it was coffee-flavored.
>>54811799
Source?
>>54812048
Not sure why this has to be a point of discussion in this thread:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/article/2013/06/25/ice-cream-best-frappes-boston/
>>54811799
src please.
>>54812027
>>54812261
>>54812362
just use google image search from the arrow, you'll find a thread with plenty of sauce.
>>54812429
right....
>>54812548
Check the metadata. Sauce is there.
Cooling and house fires are just a bad meme unless you're a /v/ manchild.
>>54812548
Got you kazoku, it's Grisaia no Kajitsu
>>54803040
Everyone finally realized that multi-GPU setups are retarded.
Plus, it's easier to grab during a fire.
>>54803326
All that work and you go with / end up with a cum colored system - or was that intentional?
>>54803040
Because after you build a few computers you realize there is no need for 20 bays on your everyday pc.
>>54809767
S-source, you know, for scientific reasons.
>>54805318
>More
How?
>>54803253
just like a new girlfriend
>>54811799
The sky is blue because of the waters above the firmament.
>>54803040
me with the brown hair
>>54803040
WHHHHHHHRRRR
OP I CAN'T
WHHHHRRRRRRR
HEAR YOU OVER THE
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NOISE OF MY MINI
WHHHHRRRR
ITX BUILD
>>54805870
Has in components are becoming more Energy efficient and generate less heat under load.
>>54803253
Fit my benis into a small space XDD
Majority of desktop consumers don't overclock their hardware, including me. Do not need a crazy cooling configuration and everything else. Quiet and small is nice.
>>54808316
a what?
>>54819671
A milkshake
>>54819681
how is that ice cream?
>>54819704
I dunno, I'm just telling you what he meant.
>>54819671
>>54819681
>>54819704
>>54819717
A frappe. Check this post: >>54812330
>>54803040
Portable
>>54820054
That's not a frappe. I don't know what it is, but it's not a frappe
>>54812330
>boston area magazine using words wrong
What a shocking discovery
>>54818355
Confirmed for never experienced a good mitx build.
My ITX build is quieter than all my friends bigger computers.
>>54821120
The image wasn't supposed to be of a frappe. The whole context is on ice cream. We are not talking about a frappé. We are talking about a frappe.
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/new-england-101/milk-shakes-frappes-cabinets
>>54803040
Portability with same functionality.
>>54803602
But he's right.
Chocolate milk a shit, too.
