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Will your custom UPS also support battery-state reporting through Windows? If so - Color me interested!!

Figuring out that giant connector to adapt it will be a problem for sure, but the PWR connector looks pretty well labelled - +19 and GND :) Most of these, as with *actual* MXM cards, can run AOK on 12V.

Can't wait for a teardown on this bad boy!! I mostly want to see the cooling setup - Corsair made some fun stuff before, for previous SFF cases.

Most have a custom heatsink and blower fan unit, and won't support a normal Intel / AMD heatsink.

HDPLEX has wide-input models - The 500W jobber isn't on the socket, and should work for you. Their 200W unit is on the plug, but nothing would stop you from running a cable extender to wherever you'd want to mount it...

Tom's Hardware - Gigabyte chops PCIe finger in half Image link - Xitter Looks like we may have a new SFF champ for the RTX 5000-series midrange - This is one of the smallest PCBs I've seen yet!

Oh, fun! The CPU is desktop Skylake, socketed, and was perfectly happy upgrading to the 6700K... after removing the audio board and attaching tiny copper heatsinks to the VRMs :) The GPU was mostly locked in, I don't have a normal MXM card with more power, but it was also happy with another...

Speaking of large die, it's funny to me how much this does resemble a GPU die / VRAM / heatsink layout.

I wish they'd gone 12VO on this instead of ATX.

I feel anything sub-ITX will be 4x4/NUC sized, or RasPI form-factor. Low-power has gone a long way, but even 15w mobile processors can be told to suck down 30w in boost - Many smaller boards don't like handling more than USB power (~15W) and folks don't want to pay for a processor to be capped...

Heck of a writeup, @Brian McGuigan ! Looks like a fantastic project. If you hadn't already purchased the ITX board, often the Flex-ATX sized "MicroATX" boards are great middle-grounds for the I/O rich mATX and ITX slimness - I've built a system or two placing the PSU over the second slot to save...

Looks super interesting! I just picked up a PCIe-MXM adapter - The sideways one pictured in their store (but from Ebay). I'll look forward to your compatibility tests!!

@Essence of Flowers - The OpenUPS is a 12v battery only, with proper charging and discharge controls. You'll need a 12-24V charger for input to it, and the PicoPSU to power the board via ATX and PCIe power as much as it's capable (within the ~5A limit)...

I've always been a fan of the block type - Dell E55xx (5580/90) are cheap and there's tons of them out there. Couple these with a 100% infill section in the base, and a thicker section behind the LCD and you're set.

Love the design! Those hinges are going to flex the snot out of the frame, though - I would strongly recommend picking up and designing around some available mass-produced and widely available hinges - Anything from a common Dell, Lenovo or HP model will do the trick.