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by morglum
Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:20 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Silent, small form (M350 ?) build. Mac mini alternative
Replies: 2
Views: 3413

Silent, small form (M350 ?) build. Mac mini alternative

Hi everyone, I'm going to be moving a wall mounted foldable desk like this one . I want a small form factor tower that will fit in that shallow space when the desk is folded up. Silent would be great, quiet would be good enough. My current CPU fan (Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus) is too loud for my lik...
by morglum
Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:10 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Nexus Value 430 or PicoPSU or .. ?
Replies: 2
Views: 1778

Hi, Nah I'm afraid everyone around me has laptops these days, so no PSU for me. I'm not sure where the short circuit could come from since I tried with only the motherboard on a cardboard box and it still didnt work. The PSU whine has been bugging me enough that I want to change it even if it isnt t...
by morglum
Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:04 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Nexus Value 430 or PicoPSU or .. ?
Replies: 2
Views: 1778

Nexus Value 430 or PicoPSU or .. ?

Hey all, Long story short, I believe my antec "smart power" PSU is dying on me and I'd like to replace it. My rig is based on a Dell Inspiron 530 that I moved inside an Antec Sonata 2 case (Foxtronn G33M02 motherboard, Core2Duo E4500 with arctix freezer 7 heatsink, 1x 8600GTS passively cooled, 4x 1G...
by morglum
Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:00 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Best brick for PicoPsu (or other efficient and silent DC-DC)
Replies: 15
Views: 7648

Thanks for the replies :)

Electrodacus seems very careful indeed. He's out of the bricks though, so he linked me to the Li Shin 0226A20160.

Will be getting this for sure, too bad there's no easy way to mount it in my case.

cheers!
by morglum
Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:32 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Best brick for PicoPsu (or other efficient and silent DC-DC)
Replies: 15
Views: 7648

New question :)

Questions 1 )If I go electrodacus's PSU route, what is a good energy efficient brick to get? I havent seen any specs for his 150W gateway brick.

edit: Question 2) How do you guys mount that PSU in a normal ATX case?

Thanks!
by morglum
Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:16 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Best brick for PicoPsu (or other efficient and silent DC-DC)
Replies: 15
Views: 7648

Thanks guys, that feedback helps a lot. i had also missed the SCPR review.

Electrodacus' fanless solution wins, since that's why I want to use a brick in the first place..


Cheers!
by morglum
Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:52 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Best brick for PicoPsu (or other efficient and silent DC-DC)
Replies: 15
Views: 7648

Best brick for PicoPsu (or other efficient and silent DC-DC)

Hey everyone,

Just wondering what is the best deals these days for a silent and low power PSU.

1) Which brick do people get these days?

2) Is the PicoPSU DC-DC converter still the best thing around? There seem to be alternatives (like electrodacus's supply)

Thanks!
S.
by morglum
Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:33 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: PicoPSU-80 with 150W brick?
Replies: 11
Views: 8728

Wow that's way too expensive. The extra efficiency would practically never pay itself back as compared to the high initial cost. I've went through the Energy Star's list of power adapter efficiencies and if 120W is enough for you, you can find a LiteOn PA3717U-1ACA which is about 90% efficient for ...
by morglum
Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:52 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Wireless card not working properly
Replies: 1
Views: 1433

Re: Wireless card not working properly

Have an MSI PC60G wireless card in a vista 64bit premium system, the box says it supports 64bit XP, but not vista. Here is the problem everything works OK like the internet and viewing network resources. The problem comes when I try to upload files to my NAS it freezes the computer, only curable by...
by morglum
Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:31 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Low Power, Fairly Quiet NAS/Router - and reasonably priced
Replies: 22
Views: 11719

if you can find the parts, a celeron 300a could probably work wonders. At least, that's what I used in a similar capacity. It was originally overclocked to 464 as my main gaming rig until it got replaced by a 1 GHz Athlon in y2k for games, and replacing my previous router's K7 that died in a horrib...
by morglum
Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:12 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Help me replace an old P3 server
Replies: 8
Views: 3914

While I believe you could get lower power consumption possibly from a newer beast, would it be worthwhile for the few watts you save? I would say option 3 with an even older AGP card, maybe a TNT. +1 Assuming you save a whopping 30 W using a newer beast. 30W * 365 days * 24 (hours / days) * 1 (KW /...
by morglum
Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:05 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: NZXT Duet
Replies: 3
Views: 1960

Of course as always, depends on what you put in it, how far away you will be, how many digits you like in the temp readouts.... Thanks for the info! I agree that it will depend on a lot of things, but I guess what I wanted to know was "all pther components being equal, will it do a better job at be...
by morglum
Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:33 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: NZXT Duet
Replies: 3
Views: 1960

NZXT Duet

I could get my hands on a cheap NZXT Duet case...

Can anyoen tell me how good is it at keeping things quiet?

Thanks
by morglum
Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:02 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Please help! New build won't boot/post - nothing!! Argh!
Replies: 11
Views: 4376

Matija wrote:
psiu wrote:Auxiliary power on motherboard plugged in?
This.
That's what set me back 1 day on my last build.. :)
by morglum
Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:32 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: What is the strongest cpu this 60 power adapter could power?
Replies: 15
Views: 4905

ilovejedd wrote:For anyone who might be interested, I sent an email to Apex and they gave me the following specs:

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thanks!
any idea how efficient it is, especially when compared to the picopsu?
by morglum
Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:33 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: What is the strongest cpu this 60 power adapter could power?
Replies: 15
Views: 4905

Guess I'll just go for the mATX instead: I'll get a 120W picopsu (55$), a gigabyte 740g (55$) and some random matx case (60$) and it'll still be cheaper than that case (80$) + zoltec mini itx (130$) and I'll be sure the power supply is strong enough. Too bad, I would have loved a miniitx computer :...
by morglum
Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:22 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: What is the strongest cpu this 60 power adapter could power?
Replies: 15
Views: 4905

Guess I'll just go for the mATX instead:
I'll get a 120W picopsu (55$), a gigabyte 740g (55$) and some random matx case (60$) and it'll still be cheaper than that case (80$) + zoltec mini itx (130$) and I'll be sure the power supply is strong enough.

Too bad, I would have loved a miniitx computer :)
by morglum
Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:32 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: any way to PHYSICALLY slow fan speed down on old 7800 gtx?
Replies: 1
Views: 1894

chop off a molex connector and the fan's connector

connect the fan to the molex's 5 V (red+black if I remember correctly)
12V would be yellow+black..

give it a try.
by morglum
Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:05 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: What is the strongest cpu this 60 power adapter could power?
Replies: 15
Views: 4905

Re: What is the strongest cpu this 60 power adapter could po

Any chance this would be strong enough for a low power sempron or is it only good enough for an atom? The Sempron can be lower power than Atom + 945GC/ICH7, but it does require undervolting to 0.8V or less. My 1.6GHz Sempron LE-1250 + 740G/SB700 + 4GB DDR2 is about 22W at full CPU load (no IGP load...
by morglum
Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:03 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: What is the strongest cpu this 60 power adapter could power?
Replies: 15
Views: 4905

What is the strongest cpu this 60 power adapter could power?

I just found a 85$can (70$US) mini-itx computer case that comes with a 60W power adapter. Any chance this would be strong enough for a low power sempron or is it only good enough for an atom? Assuming no optical drive and either a 2.5" HD or a CF card... Link to the Apex MW-100: http://www.bestdirec...
by morglum
Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:41 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Anyone tried LTSP to salvage an old Pentium?
Replies: 21
Views: 18655

I skipped the ubuntu ltsp visualization step and just use xp pro with multiple concurrent rdp hack. I'm about to do just that too, sounds easier for the windows part. The thing is , if I ever want to deploy this on a larger, (and legal scale), I'll probably need to built a edubuntu server on the si...
by morglum
Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:19 pm
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Anyone tried LTSP to salvage an old Pentium?
Replies: 21
Views: 18655

teststrips wrote:was curious how things went with your thinstation
haha - dont mention it
i didnt get a pwoer supply with the wyse winterm.. :/

A friend of mine should give me an old 1999 computer anytime soon. She doesnt even know what it is.. My guess is p3 / celeron.. we'll see.
by morglum
Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:34 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Anyone tried LTSP to salvage an old Pentium?
Replies: 21
Views: 18655

hey - if you have a kill-a-watt (or other power meter) - measure it for me... Often wondered how much power these use... I'm assuming something low like 20 watts or less, but it would be neat to know for sure (without having to buy a $20 power meter) Will do, I can get them for free at the library....
by morglum
Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:25 pm
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Old computer power consumption
Replies: 27
Views: 23727

I'll try and do some more digging later on. Please do. I'm sure alot of SPCR'ers would find a study like that really helpful/exciting. found one! This 2004 study finds that The total energy and fossil fuels used in producing a desktop computer with 17-in. CRT monitor are estimated at 6400 megajoule...
by morglum
Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:15 pm
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Anyone tried LTSP to salvage an old Pentium?
Replies: 21
Views: 18655

I just read the actual article (only skimmed before) - he's basically using linux as a host to run virtualbox which is then RDPed into. If you are using XP as a host, all you need to do is the above mentioned hack, and create sepearate users for each person who wants to connect (or different users ...
by morglum
Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:35 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Old computer power consumption
Replies: 27
Views: 23727

As for manufacturing outweighing actual usage, I think it's just a case of common sense really, raw materials need to be mined, then transported, then turned into x composite material which is then cut to shape and on and on etc. All the water, oil, electricity, petrol etc used must be considerable...
by morglum
Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:31 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Anyone tried LTSP to salvage an old Pentium?
Replies: 21
Views: 18655

This time with links included so basically he's turned his old machine into a terminal. there are plenty of other options to turn your old machine into a terminal.... http://www.thinstation.org/ http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/ http://www.rdesktop.org/ You don't even have to have a linux host - most...
by morglum
Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:19 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Old computer power consumption
Replies: 27
Views: 23727

Not trying to be particularly nasty, but why bother asking the question, if you was just going to plump for the Sempron anyroad. At the end of the day, the energies used in manufacturing computer parts far outweigh any usage in an items lifetime, so if this was based on conscience, which is how you...
by morglum
Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:40 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Energy / ressources going into the manufacturing of a comput
Replies: 7
Views: 7137

As was pointed out, energy costs money. The best rule of thumb is that the more money you spend on manufactured goods, the more of an environmental impact it has. There's exceptions, yes, but it's still a very good general rule. All true. But the external cost of the polluted water and toxic waste ...
by morglum
Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:55 pm
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Anyone tried LTSP to salvage an old Pentium?
Replies: 21
Views: 18655

Everyone: He used 1 server for 1 client, but he could have used it for 10 clients... Like this person did for a medical office in brazil. Computers use energy in their life, but they also require *a lot* for when being manufactured. If you can run 10 old pentium 1 computer and achieve exactly the sa...