Hi everyone I've just finished reading the http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1350-page3.html review. While power consumption is low, it is nothing exceptional, in idle (where home servers usually stay most of the time), compared even to an i7! ..but the worst thing seems to be.. that every modern...

I may be a bit OT here.. but I've got a 2100T cooled with a fanless Scythe Ninja.. and even in this hot summer cpu temps are always in the acceptable range.. how comes an Atom, wich has 1/3 the wattage of the 2100T, overheats?

Hi I didn't know about the lack of memory remapping in the aopen bios.. not that this is an issue, for a regular server use (mine just got upgraded from 2x512mb modules to 1x2gb, and I even lessened of 1W the power requirement) Apart from this, since I run with swap file disabled, I can assure that ...

Hi to everyone That board is nice, but beware of some issue: 1) It does NOT have a standard cooler holes setup.. this mean you'll be able only to use the default small, loud included cooler, and most likely you WON'T be able to go fanless, unless you do some dirty work building an homemade adapter t...

@Magsy: What board are you talking about when you say that it uses a bit less power than the Aopen 945 one? As for the Battery: there's a mode of charging the battery called "float charge", basically the one most ups use: in the case of a Gel-Lead (brick) battery, you can charge it between 13.8 and ...

@batka Hi Actually, I do use a PW200-M, a slightly more powerful version of the PicoPsu120: I upgraded from it when I began using the 4 disk raid array.. it needed more power during spin-up. The battery is wired in parallel to the 12V input line of the Pico-Psu, (and the 12V line is a little bit ove...

...using a PicoPsu120, you can power up such a system from a plain old lead acid car battery for one to two full days with no effort... so the result is worth the effort. There's always research to to, you have to find the most power efficent hdd, dvd, ram, cpu.. is not easy, but in the end, it is r...

Hi True, we must consider that going the MODT way implies using Mobile chipsets, Mobile CPUs, mobile drives, and often integrated mobile graphics.. so we're saving energy on many fronts here. I didn't measure energy consumption during the Raid Array activity simply because 98% of the time it is idli...

@fwki: The test system of Tomshardware, a plain desktop mobo with a desktop cpu idled at 31w, inefficent psu included.. ..so sorry, but not a lot of effort is needed to go below 30w, and in fact I have it running in my home: Gigabit ethernet, 160Gb hdd (I could go up to 500Gb with no effort at all),...

@Cistron: MODT.. why? Because a pc that consumes little power can run on a battery, in places where the poweline is unreliable or there's no poweline at all. Because less noise is a concern for people who has to put a pc in his bedroom (where's trying to sleep) or next to his home theater, where noi...

@wywywywy: If you can get off with your internal TV card (the USB one is fine because it can draw a maximum of 2.5W), Geforce video card (and switch to integrated video) and exchange your 3.5" hdd and full-size DVD for notebook counterparts you'll see you have a much lower power consumption. In fact...

Hi I didn't want to sound rude, but trust me, I've heard so many incorrect stuff (myths,legends,strange beliefs) that it makes me wonder how people can report back about stuff they don't even know first-hand and talk like if they do know for real. My setup follows. First, here are the common compone...

First of all, hi and happy new year to everyone. I was reading your posts, and I HAD TO REGISTER to SPCR forums just to give a word of warning to people seeking to continue their MODT use.. Don't listen to people babbling about desktop chips being as power efficent as their mobile counterparts.. it ...