Watch the meter during start-up to see how much power is used to bring up all those drives. Do you need two DVD drives? Do you really need the floppy? Do you save any power at idle by removing them? Do you save any power at start-up? If you intend to run it at greater than 1GHz, get those power num...

This is my PSU, i think a pico-psu will do much more in energy saving, don't you agree?


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Hi, this is my actual configuration: Amd 4850e X2 Mobo Asrock K10N78FullHD-hSLI R3.0 2 GB DDR2 A-data (on a single bank) Western Digital Caviar 500GB Green Power PSU Fortron 350W DVD Drive Thoshiba DVD-rw Pioneer 111d Floppy Drive In idle this config uses 44W (1Ghz and 1V of Vcore) Soon i will do ot...

Thank you all guys, after reading your answer i've decided to order a new asrock gf 8200 mobo (called K10N78FullHD-hSLI rev 3.0). It will arrive tomorrow or the day after, so i will post my results very soon.
Bye

loimlo wrote:I think every boards in the market require a ATX12V plug. You can buy an ATX12V adapter for Pico if you want, and many people have done it before.

What is? Where i can buy it? Have you a link?
Thnak you

Doesn't asrock 7050 chipset mobo require the 12V pin? I know pico psu hasn't this 4pin plug...Is it right?

Hi everyone, this my 1st topic on this board. I'm Italian so sorry if my english isn't very good. I'm looking to do a system that will play smoothly the 1080p mkv files and absorbs very very little electricity (<40W). The CPU i've choose is the new AMD Athlon X2 EE 4850e with a TDP of 45W. The quest...

Is the Asrock Nvidia GF8200 chipset (K10N78FullHD-hSLI R3.0) fully compatible with RmClock? What is the minimum voltage for the CPU?
Thz