X500 PLUS...coming soon!

The X500 PLUS is my latest design. A custom computer case with inbuilt keyboard very much inspired by the classic Commodore Amiga 500, in size and dimensions. Designed for the latest NG motherboards for Amiga OS; SAM440EP, 440Flex and 460EX by ACube, it should also be suitable for other mini-ITX and Flex ATX motherboards (Intel, Asus, Gigabyte, Zotac, Natami, fpga-arcade etc...). I'll try and test as many motherboards as possible and a list of suitable boards will be available. At the moment the case has been tested with the SAM440EP, SAM440 Flex ATX, SAM460EX (Flex-ATX) running AmigaOS 4.1and an EPIA-M mini-ITX running Linux and Windows. The X500 PLUS has been designed with expansion in mind allowing the user to install up to three 2.5" hard or solid state drives, DVD-RW/Blu-ray drive, but more importantly space for the user to modify/play with. The X500 PLUS presents two expansion slots. It's ideal for mini-ITX boards. For Flex-ATX boards a bit of ingenuity to use two cards might be required but it can be done. :-)
Graphics cards tested (card length and thickness limit applies)
ATI Radeon 9200, 9250 PCI
ATI Radeon 4650 PCI-Express
NVidia based Asus 7500LE PCI-Express
Network Card:
3COM 10/100 PCI
Tenda Gigabit PCI
SATA controller:
Digitus 2 Sata controller RAID 0/1 PCI
Sound Card:
Sound Blaster Live! PCI
Users are welcome to let me know about more suitable cards/boards.
Thank you.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Amiga
• A1200
• A500
• Amiga 500
• Amiga 1200
• Atari
• Atari ST
• custom case
• all in one teaser

[LorianoPagni]

I hope so, I also hope amigakit might get interested ;-)



[janmansde3dede]

Freaking awesome !!! is there any way you could make contact with A-EON to make a low-end version of the X1000 ?

[LorianoPagni]

@janmansde3dede

I'll try... ;-)

[rasvoja]

@janmansde3dede

"Since this is JUST the case, limits are up to people imagination: allows the use of miniITX boards. FlexATX boards fit too but of the three expansion slots only one is supported, the use of two cards (two PCI cards or two PCI Express 16X + 1X or one PCI Express 16X and one PCI) is possible with some clever use of flexible riser cards"

Tested with Intel Atom or the faster AMD Fusion E35 and all SAM boards

[janmansde3dede]

@rasvoja Yeah, imagine what the Amiga community can do with this !,

probably has something to do with showing porn..

[rasvoja]

@janmansde3dede

A-EON announced after X-1000 is done (about Christhmas this year) they will release XMOS on PCI card, To be honest wasn`t able to find many Xmos uses so far, but it will be up to Amiga community to (ab)use it to max!

Well, SAM 460 is much closer to "normal prices". All In One computers need good cooling (a CUSA lesson) quality build up and keyboard, and small size board. But this X500 can make it possible in a look

[janmansde3dede]

@janmansde3dede I meant "only one PCI slot"...

[janmansde3dede]

@rasvoja Meh.. too bad there isn't the Xena, in my opinion if there is going to be a new amiga 500 then it should be in a keyboard case and featuring everything the X1000 has except for having only PCI slot and 712 MB graphics on board (if there exist something between 512 MB and 1 GB :) )

[rasvoja]

@janmansde3dede

In AmigaOne branding, now SAM 460 is dubbed "AmigaOne 500". Its about half priced as X1000 will be and has what users were asking as low end X1000: no Xena, single core CPU 1.15Ghz while having PCI-E,DDR2,USB2 etc.

[rasvoja]

@LorianoPagni

Nice! Will Acube sell it when its done?