Cool PC mod Idea

[GamerGuyEbby]

A few months ago I came up with the idea to build a PC into an Atari. Now, I own an original Atari 2600 and I don't want to tear that apart, but I do have a crappy Atari 2600 flashback system so I already took the chassis apart and then I didn't have anything of sufficient size to put in it. Every PSU I own is ATX and I don't have any small enough mobos or coolers. So I decided to put a laptop in it. My friend said I could buy a really small form factor laptop off of him (haven't yet) and use that. The laptop isn't very good it has some Intel CPU at 1Ghz but really good onboard graphics for the CPU, I think like 4Gb of DDR3L RAM, etc. All I need to do is cut some holes for IO in the case and that's it. If see see anything wrong or have any suggestions or questions, please tell me, thanks for reading.

[Frankie]

People usually use PICO PSUs. You are limited by size, but it's doable.

 

http://hexus.net/tech/news/chassis/45245-custom-atari-2600-pc-mod-highlighted-microsoft/

[manikyath]

13 minutes ago, Frankie said:

People usually use PICO PSUs. You are limited by size, but it's doable.

 

http://hexus.net/tech/news/chassis/45245-custom-atari-2600-pc-mod-highlighted-microsoft/

seriously tho, all that work, and no IO shield

 

on topic: if you want to do it decently, i'd suggest looking into asrock's mini ITX offerings. i havent looked at them in a while but iirc they have a few that even work off of a laptop style power brick, which would save you a crap ton of space for actual function-y bits

 

EDIT: tear apart a NUC-style barebones system perhaps?

[Frankie]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

seriously tho, all that work, and no IO shield

 

Yeah, dunno why.  It would bug me a lot, not my build though so oh well.

[manikyath]

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3160DC-ITX/index.nl.asp

 

i'd recommend something along those lines if you're gonna buy hardware to stuff into a small box.

 

its priced around €120 here (which is honestly not much more than a raspberry pi and its accessories) and includes a laptop style power brick.

 

all thats left is to add some (sodimm) memory and a hard drive and you're off to the races.