Hi. I've been thinking about picking up one of the AMD-based ones and building it up as a portable mini gaming system.

However, I see a potential problem here. The teeny tiny case has a teeny tiny 300W power supply. Yes, the motherboard has a PCIe 16x slot.

However, there's only room in the case for half-height, so called "low profile ready" video cards to fit that slot. That's not impossible to overcome. But the 300W power supply doesn't put out enough juice to run a video card that will be better than integrated video. Apparently at least a 480W PSU is needed that can support a video card drawing 200+ watts/26 amps or more. You're not going to get, say, a GeForce 9600GT/512MB card to run on that, and it may even fry the motherboard if you try.

Has anyone built up one of these and been able to put a decent PSU and video card in it?

Thanks.

I've heard of 5.25" power supplies that are made specifically to power pcie devices - if you do a quick google search you may be able to find what I'm talking about. Another option is to hook up a power supply externally to it, though it might take some work to make it look professional. Think of it like a Gateway Profile 4 / 5's power supply. The thing is like a brick. Anyway, that's what I'd recommend.