Thread: IEI KINO-690S1 AMD Turion 64 Mini-ITX Mainboard

Originally Posted by jmc1414

i was looking at that tripple splitter matrox... cool but this board already has dual output with the vga/dvi jacks... you could just add a second card and that would make 3

For the present project I need to be able to have 3 screens fed via DVI. The base requirement for the Matrox to do this is if the DVI port is a Dual-Link DVI port. There are other chipset and miscellaneous requirements, but that is the base one. So if that board passes the Matrox compatibility test, it will be able to drive 3 screens wide from that single DVI port at the resolutions we need.
I understand what you are saying about adding another card, but for our particular purposes it would be ideal to have everything already on board. Also to get a good card with two DVI ports I will need an MB with a PCI express slot, and then I have one more item added to the complication of packaging the whole thing. My present "fallback" solution is to go with a mini-itx w/ pci-express + riser + one of the many supported pci-express cards by the Matrox device (likely nVidia). However I am considering it an extreme fallback to go that route (only because of this specific project, not because there is anything wrong with that method/idea).

Thanks again to everyone involved in this thread. I am learning a lot of tidbits which could only be gained with experience with the board. I would love to see photos of anyone's fab work for their cases as well, as long as it doesn't require too much work for you to post them.

Cheers,

orGSD

Originally Posted by HiJackZX1

Yea, my case was from Morex, and I gutted mine to, And I still have space issue, and the case is rather big. Problem is the OPUS 320 is so big, it takes up almost 50%, its close to the size of the MoBo.... My space is so limited, I cant use IDE, i have to use sata because the cables are thinner and take up less space.

I would love to see pics of your setup

When putting together my CARPC I wanted an EQS AMD Mini-ITX board. It would have cost around £120 from the UK but it would kick *** as it has pretty decent graphics onboard!

Since it was my first CarPC, I went with a Via 1.5Ghz C7 mini ITX and if I like the car pc concept, I will upgrade to the AMD Intel suck because the graphics are Intel extreme and the little valley board is crap....pure and simple!

I hate to repeat my question but I really want to place an order Monday (tomorrow) and would like to do so knowing whether or not this board (KINO 690S1) can drive the Matrox TripleHead2GO DigitalEdition with all three monitors at a minimum of 1280x1024 per monitor.

If you are currently running this board and have windows installed, and can spare 2-3 minutes to help me out on my quest, Matrox has a tool located here which will say whether or not the board can handle the Matrox device. A screenshot of the results would be best but I will take anything!

My original post on the subject, which contains more details, can be found here.
I apologize again for repeating the question but I really need to place an order tomorrow