Items tagged with 'Small Form Factor'

VIA Launches Stackable Multi-Story Chassis for EPIA Boards

VIA Launches Stackable Multi-Story Chassis for EPIA Boards

VIA Launches Stackable Multi-Story Chassis for VIA EPIA BoardsVIA AMOS-1000 and VIA AMOS-2000 chassis use unique stackable and modular designs for Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX-based industrial SBCs Taipei, Taiwan, 27 August 2009 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced... Read More
Gaiser's Gold/Diamond-Splashed PCs Are Only For The Wealthy

Gaiser's Gold/Diamond-Splashed PCs Are Only For The Wealthy

Heard of Gaiser high-end PCs? Yeah, neither had we, until we came across the glorious machine shown here. This ultra-luxurious PC is way, way more than just your next small form factor PC. It's an icon, a status symbol and a perfect way to spend upwards of $30,000. Yeah, 30 grand!  Compensating?The German company produces... Read More
Beyond Atom: Exploring Performance ITX Solutions

Beyond Atom: Exploring Performance ITX Solutions

If you find the idea of a tiny small form factor machine appealing but can't stand the limited performance and lack of customizability of current "nettops", then listen up. This is your lucky day as we're going to take you on a quick tour around some exciting new ITX products and show you that 'performance ITX' isn't an... Read More
Beyond Atom: Exploring Performance ITX Solutions

Beyond Atom: Exploring Performance ITX Solutions

Thanks largely to all of the attention surrounding the Intel Atom platform and its alternatives like the Via Nano and NVIDIA Ion, small form factor (SFF) systems have been generating tech news in a big way for the past half year. While tiny toaster-sized machines have been relevant for some time, as proven by the continued... Read More
VIA's Nano CPU Finds Shuttle's XS29F SFF PC

VIA's Nano CPU Finds Shuttle's XS29F SFF PC

Wow Shuttle, branching out, are we? The company made famous for delivering rectangular barebones kits that ruled the SFF roost for years is now spreading its wings and delving into more low-power type rigs. Don't believe us? Have a look at the latest release from VIA, which proves that Shuttle is accepting VIA's Nano CPU... Read More
First NVIDIA Ion Win Announced, Acer AspireRevo

First NVIDIA Ion Win Announced, Acer AspireRevo

NVIDIA and Acer collectively took the wraps off the very first NVIDIA Ion-based design win, with a sleek new SFF PC (Small Form Factor PC) called the AspireRevo.  Built on the NVIDIA Ion platform, the AspireRevo consists of NVIDIA's GeForce 9400 chipset with integrated graphics in support of Intel's Atom processor. ... Read More
Dell Studio Hybrid Small Form Factor Desktop

Dell Studio Hybrid Small Form Factor Desktop

Two perpetually, almost fad-like and recurring themes for computing technology in 2008 are low power, environmentally friendly products as well as tiny, small form-factor or ultra-portable machines. Power consumption and size -- it has become undeniably hip and cool to offer products that cater to the new carbon footprint... Read More
Dell Studio Hybrid Small Form Factor Desktop

Dell Studio Hybrid Small Form Factor Desktop

Two perpetually, almost fad-like and recurring themes for computing technology in 2008 are low power, environmentally friendly products as well as tiny, small form-factor or ultra-portable machines.  Power consumption and size -- it has become undeniably hip and cool to offer products that cater... Read More
MSI Unveils Titan 700 Ultra Small Form Factor PC

MSI Unveils Titan 700 Ultra Small Form Factor PC

MSI has just announced a brand new ultra small form factor PC, dubbed the Titan 700.  The tiny machine features a 2.0GHz VIA C7 processor, a mini-ITX motherboard, and a compact case with a volume of only 3.1L. The motherboard's CN700 norhtbridge sports a VIA Graphics (S3) UniChrome Pro IGP, and other features include... Read More
AMD DTX Small Form Factor System Sneak Peek

AMD DTX Small Form Factor System Sneak Peek

When AMD first revealed their plans for the DTX open industry standard, the intent of that early briefing was to explain AMD’s vision for interoperable small form factor systems. As it stands today, most SFF systems from large companies like Dell and HP are proprietary designs. On the do-it-yourself front, we’ve got form... Read More
AMD DTX Small Form Factor System Sneak Peek

AMD DTX Small Form Factor System Sneak Peek

It was back in January of this year at the Consumer Electronics Show that AMD first revealed their plans for the DTX open industry standard for small form factor computers.  The focus of those early briefings was to explain AMD’s vision for interoperable small form factor systems.  As it stands today, most SFF... Read More
Seagate Introduces First Small Form Factor 15K Enterprise Hard Drive

Seagate Introduces First Small Form Factor 15K Enterprise Hard Drive

Seagate Technology today introduced the world's fastest hard drive -- the Savvio 15K drive, the new 15K-rpm addition to the Savvio family of 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise drive solutions. The Savvio 15K drive provides the highest hard drive performance density and reliability while ensuring ultra-low... Read More
MSI mPC 51PV Small Form Factor PC

MSI mPC 51PV Small Form Factor PC

When Shuttle first thrust small form factor systems upon the Do-It-Yourself crowd in 2001, they were deemed niche products that wouldn't likely appeal to the masses, due to inherent expandability deficiencies and limited feature-sets relative to full-sized desktop systems.  Over the last half decade though, interest... Read More
Shuttle SD31P Small Form Factor XPC

Shuttle SD31P Small Form Factor XPC

When we last checked in with Shuttle back in April, we took a look at their current entry for the Intel platform, which was based on the latest chipset at the time, the i925XE.  Our introduction for that piece went something along the lines of how the SFF market typically lags behind the full-sized board market, but... Read More
Foxconn e-bot Small Form Factor PC

Foxconn e-bot Small Form Factor PC

In what seems to be an ever expanding market, we've got yet another look at a new Small Form Factor system on HotHardware.  This time the system comes to us by way of Foxconn.  The same company that's been putting their stamp on motherboards and other OEM hardware since 1991.  Following their recent... Read More
EPoX eX5-320S Small Form Factor PC Review

EPoX eX5-320S Small Form Factor PC Review

Good afternoon folks! BW here, stopping by to let you all know that we've just posted a review of EPoX's eX5-320S small form factor PC. This mini-system is powered by the Intel i865 chipset for the Pentium 4, and sports some useful features not found on competing products. It even includes a remote control! Click here and... Read More
Chyang Fun CFS868 Small Form Factor PC

Chyang Fun CFS868 Small Form Factor PC

The CF-S868 Small Form Factor PC Shuttle's Got Some Competition... By, Marco Chiappetta August 28, 2002 After laying your eyes on any of Shuttle's initial small form factor mini systems, you can't help but want one.  Their compact, aluminum design and high level of integration make them suitable for a multitude of... Read More