Fitting a 'Ti' M'Board inside a RPC Case

Anyone think of providing a ‘kit’ to fit a ‘T’ M’Board inside a RPC Case?

ie something like a Power supply adaptor cable – including a 5v to 3.3 voltage converter.

Power/data leads for a Sata HD.

You want to fit a machine with 4 S-ATA connectors into a case with a power supply that sometimes cannot even sustain the operation of one drive (see the +12V misery of optical drives)?

Not everyone needs 4 SATA drives. Or they’re just SSDs.

The PicoPSU is a way to generate voltages for an ATX motherboard, but it does so from a 12V supply which, as you say, is not the Risc PC’s finest hour.

I might suggest either replacing the RPC PSU with another (FlexATX should fit, though you’d need to mount it somehow since it’s a lot smaller), or using a PicoPSU with an external power brick.

Other issues are having enough back panel room for all the connectors, a replacement power switch, and probably needing cooling if you replace the RPC PSU (since you’ll lose its fan).

Other issues are having enough back panel room for all the connectors

Fairly easy to fabricate podule plates with appropriate cutout holes to hold screw-in panel mount cable extensions, but would require a LOT of internal cables – what would it be…
6x USB
2x RJ45
2x DVI
2x Serial
3x 3.5mm jack

Might need a dual slice for that lot!

I wonder if you could channel the serial ports to the VGA and Serial Port holes on the RiscPC motherboard connector holes? And I’m sure it’d be easy enough to make a plate that covers the NIC slot to hold two RJ45 ports. Might be able to make the audio jacks fit the audio jack and mouse/keyboard holes?

Then you’d only need to run the USB and the DVI to the podule slots. That’d be doable on a single slice machine, I think?

You could probably tidy up the cabling rather a lot if you wanted to do that:

• 2x DVI → HDMI adaptors and some HDMI sockets
• USB hub and audio jacks in front drive bay (for example )

which leaves 2x RJ45 and 2x serial ports – you might decide to do away with some of them, depending on your use case. You could also fit a USB to serial adapter and reduce them to Micro USB slave ports.