Why did it never catch on?
>>61546033
isn;t that just stx with flattened dimms?
>>61546051
It's Mini-ITX but none of the components on the board exceed a certain height, the placement of all components is more strict, and it has more internal connectors. The idea was to kickstart do-it-yourself AIO's, laptops, etc. and yet nobody cared.
Still have to deal with cooler height, most coolers are over the height of even the tallest rear i/o anyway
Then comes the fact that theres lots of competition in that very niche market. STX and shit is way smaller and fits the bill for uSFF pc's much Theres a few YouTube videos on mini stx boards, an entire PC with a desktop processor and a proper GPU can fit inside something the size of an ATX power supply
the cpu heatsink would have to be tiny otherwise that ram mounting would be useless, and no one would want a throttling cpu.
>>61546101
>>61546107
>cooler height
They were going to use enlarged laptop-style coolers to keep things flat. The AIO kits would typically come with one.
>>61546129
so they'd be more expensive and have worse cooling than regular itx because of that plus the ram type is also more expensive than regular desktop ram.
and even mini itx is a niche market, so this thing literally has no market at all. thats why it never catched on.
>>61546033
That board's layout is a clusterfuck.
>>61546493
And then I noticed that it doesn't take any of the standard power connectors, which explains part of it because it needs to generate all of the voltages it needs from a single input voltage.
>>61546033
mini-itx was already mall enough and had room for pcie.
>>61546033
One reason I'd say is because no thin ITX boards supported discrete GPUs (good ones, anyway). A few of them had PCIe x4 slots (which was the max because the intel reference CPU cooler's heatpipes had to cross in front of it), but they could only deliver 25W through the slot, whereas the spec calls for 75W if its meant to support GPUs.
Since it's essentially limited to onboard GPUs only, there's really no reason to base it on the ITX form factor at all, and it's been effectively superseded by smaller form factors like the NUC.
Anyone needing a computer that small would just use a rasberry pi.