Recent content by Silicon42

Found this where there's a listing for ASRock B150M motherboards for 45.36 USD and they supposedly have over 1000 of them. If this is real, that is quite tempting.

I'd probably make/design my own case if I get around to buying a PIO board. Production though would probably be out of my capability. In any case, I have to get a job first so I can afford such things as a brand new computer and college bills.

Thanks for the heads up, but part of the reason I'm on the fence about buying one is that I'm considering waiting around a year to see if any affordable 300 series motherboards of the same form factor will pop up to make buying an i5-8400 (or possibly i5-8500 when it's released) a good value buy.

The problem with that is that it only works with vendors and not individuals (DIY) and there apparently are no more vendors selling them since searching PIO will only give a very short list of phone cases and no motherboards. It seems to be like the difference between and individual selling...

I'm really interested in these PIO motherboards with how they have the pcie 16x socket at the top and I am tentatively interested in buying one but it seems you can only get them in China. I'm particularly interested in this listing...

I'm a new member on this forum and I recently got interested in building an affordable small form factor computer. I live in California in the Bay Area. I personally prefer flat "console-killer" builds. I'm particularly interested in motherboards with socket lga1151 and the pcie 16x slot at the...

I want to start this off by saying that I realize this idea is highly impractical. Many AIOs use non-standard motherboard form factors, many have few to no standard sata connectors, awkwardly placed ports, and good luck finding them with standard power connectors. But every now and then you see...