Mini-Itx project

[JunkBear]

Hi.

Happy new year in advance !

I got an older ITX with onboard soldered cpu and I would like to make a mod rig.

I want to put it inside an homemade case with external psu that just give the +5v and the +12V with grounds of course since the 3.3V is mostly unnecessary on mobos these days. Am i right?

So i would mod a 20 pins mobo plug just to have the +5 +12 and Grounds that would connect to a plug case and that plus could be powered with an external DVD-rw power supply.

With only one stick of ram and a 2.5" hdd and a slim ODD.

Do I really need the -5v and all other wires like 3.3v ? The green will be connected to the power button opf course.

What are you thinking? Thank you!

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

I don't understand, pictures of the board would work better for see what you saying.

Wouldn't a pico psu work? You don't need to mod with that they come provides with nessecary wires and connections.

 

[JunkBear]

I will look upon pico then.

 

[tabascosauz]

pico will probably be much easier to work with. The 160W version provides enough juice for just about anything. Doesn't take up space either.

Cases like the Wesena ITX1 or Stream F1C are so small that they don't take anything other than pico-PSU style ones. Streacom also seems to have those mini-PSUs; might be worth taking a look if picoPSU is hard to get.

May I ask what board this is? Is this old like Atom or newer Bay Trail or post-Bay Trail like the J2900?

 

[JunkBear]

Its 478 socket but soldered onboard. Regular size single slot memory.

 

[red_stapler]

Yeah, I'd definitely suggest a PicoPSU:

 

[JunkBear]

Its exactly the same mobo i have hehehe