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- Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:03 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Scythe SFF21D 120mm 800rpm won't start
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2371
- Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:59 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Can a 150xt + 150 AC adapter Pico handle this?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4731
If your graphics card has a separate 12V power input (PCI-E), then you are in luck. You can use Ryboto's method of feeding separate 12V circuits to the CPU, graphics card and the motherboard. The PicoPSU would be only involved in the last of these. The rough budget of power I suggest is 70W for each...
- Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:00 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: A-Tech dc-dc PSU 200W
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1616
A-tech is a boutique shop, they charge you for everything. I suppose "boutique shop" also means that they assume that their customers know nothing and they tell them nothing so that they can rip them off easily? They are also supposed to have excellent quality. the pico 150XT is not in their list a...
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:35 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: A-Tech dc-dc PSU 200W
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1616
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:40 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Advice needed for small and slim fans
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2805
Re: Advice needed for small and slim fans
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me on this desperate search for the perfect fans! :D But perfect fans are not small and slim. In fact, they are large and fat. Fans are there to move air. The smaller, slimmer fans need to run faster to move the same amount of air as the large fans and, s...
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:26 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: drive-bay fan control = bypassed motherboard fan headers?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4403
Hi, I was planning to go in the same direction by mounting a fan controller, but found that I didn't need to. I am running my system with a single 120mm CPU fan mounted on Akasa Evo. (My motherboard has two fan headers.) The CPU fan is directed towards the back of the case and, so, serves as an exha...
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:00 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: LF: PICO PSU 80 or 100W
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3703
Nice post Gosh! It is! In another thread, we were talking about how nothing much is happening on the Silent PC front, with no new exciting products, and how things are pretty much coasting. But the PicoPSU is an exception to this general scene. It is exciting , which partly explains why such possib...
- Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:52 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Can a 150xt + 150 AC adapter Pico handle this?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4731
Since most people who have chimed in so far think that the 150 is cutting it really close, do most people think the 200 should be fine, then? I am a bit less enthusiastic about PW-200 power supplies now than when I wrote my earlier post in this thread. Since then, Eddie666 reported that PW-200 didn...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:07 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hybrid Drive (SSD + HDD)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4243
But why flush to the HDD? That makes sense if you have something like a RAM disk and a HDD but with a SSD I don't see the point. A modern SSD is both faster and more reliable than a HDD. faster and more reliable, but more expensive. People seem to want 1TB of storage these days. An SSD of that size...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hybrid Drive (SSD + HDD)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4243
It is easy enough to find a mounting bracket that can load a 2.5" SSD and a 2.5" HDD into one 3.5" bay. There are even mounting racks that take care of the connectors for you. But that is of course not what these guys are after. They are hoping that an OEM will sell a SSD+HDD combo, presumably for a...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:25 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Noctua NH-U12P SE2 review
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4240
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:08 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Another Pico PSU question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6010
What is your reasoning behind thinking they are not accurate at measuring average power consumption? Oh, they are probably ok for measuring average power consumption. But I am not confident that they do a good job of measuring the peak power draw, which is what we need to know to decide the capacit...
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:56 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Heating problems...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3296
Altho, I tested it this night, undervolting the CPU and it went all right. Well, congratulations! But that heatsink is troubling me, where can I find any good heatsink that can fit into it cause over here, all computers shop are way too small to have any in stock and even order one for me. Try the ...
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:35 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: What's this connector called?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3485
Here is the info on it from the playtool page.
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:35 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Could HD not spinning up be motherboard problem?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7901
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:07 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 2.5" vs 3.5" HDD.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9613
I personally don't see any reason to use 3.5" disks any more. Even when people used 3.5" disks, they tried to cut down their usage to the 2.5" portion of their disks if they cared about the seek noise and performance. So why bother now? I have Corsair X64 (2.5" solid state drive) and Seagate Momentu...
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:00 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Heating problems...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3296
Re: Heating problems...
On that base, can I simply go and test stuff until what I get satisfy me ? Or is there any chances ( Bad chances ) that I'll break off my CPU ? Yes, you will break the CPU eventually if you keep overheating it. If it goes to 70C, you should terminate or suspend the processes that are loading the pr...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:13 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Another Pico PSU question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6010
Before I started the PC I was surprised to see it was pulling 10W from the wall socket, - would this be the power supply ?...and is it an overhead I can discount with a Pico PSU ? So far it looks as though I could comfortably power this system with a 120W Pico PSU......but have I missed anything ? ...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:00 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Pico causing system to shutdown. Please help.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5281
Hi doveman, Where did you buy the EF28 board from? Most places I can see are selling it together with the MCubed brick, and the combination is quite expensive. Also, do you know if MCubed made the board themselves or they are just branding it? Uday PS: I wish I paid to attention to your signature li...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:13 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Listening to page scroll
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2474
Re: Listinig to page scroll
It seems to me that only possible thing is CPU Fan, or GPU fan or... RAM (i have no ram fan, so...). Chips don't make noise. However, when loaded, they might draw a lot of current and thereby tax the power supply. Or, they might generate too much heat or force the power supply to generate extra hea...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:28 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: SG02 3d graphics design build (image heavy)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 25265
On setting up the final build it went from silent to horrendously noisy. The culprits turned out to be the HDDs. Watercooling or passive solutions; they would make no difference. The only real sound comes from the disk drives. Sorry Per. On my first reading of the thread, I didn't read this far dow...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:56 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Recommendation on [quiet], powerful and small Corei5 system?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7337
If so, you might consider an mATX X58 board with i7-920 CPU. Also, the Arctic Cooling S1 heatsink is said to do a fine job on an HD 5850. i7's are 125W CPU's compared to 95W i5's. So, they need significantly more cooling. I would bet that no cooler with a 96mm fan would be able to satisfactorily co...
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:56 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: PicoPSU 150 fine for this build? How 2 find 150W power adapt
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15316
In the meantime I found a FSP150-AHBN1 available at Kustompcs.. http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1666.html for £46.00 and they also stock the picoPSU-150-XT The FSP power brick is being sold with 2.5-5.5mm jack that is rated for up to 8A of current, but to get 150W at 12V, you need to draw...
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:39 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec solo and Prolima Megahalems OK?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3737
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:53 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: PicoPSU 150 fine for this build? How 2 find 150W power adapt
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15316
But not available in UK ? Hi Taidi, Cov from London ordered his power supplies from short-circuit.com and reported good experience. Her Majesty's Customs can charge some extra, but it is probably no worse than the VAT we have to pay here normally. Just don't select USMail/Royal Mail for shipping be...
- Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:25 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Is it me or have things slowed down considerably?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 38990
The top-line CPUs are 125 watts and the GPUs are slowly getting there. The available cases are not big enough to hold the coolers needed for these power hogs. People are wondering things are supposed to be getting smaller but why are they getting bigger. Most people just do email, word processing an...
- Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:06 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: What external power soruce can i use to power my speakers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 988
Normally, speakers don't need any power. It is the amps that do. PC speakers often need power because they have amps built inside them. (But note that only one of the two or several speakers needs power, the one that has the amp.) If you have a separate amp, then you should be able to connect it to ...
- Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:10 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: PicoPSU Question.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4975
- Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:58 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Dell DA-2 Power Brick Help
- Replies: 52
- Views: 156090
I am also at a similar impasse with regard to PW-200. Using an FSP150 power brick (with a matching 2.5mm jack), it was able to power the motherboard with 27W observed peak power. But it couldn't do it along with the CPU (65W rating) or the GPU (53W rating). My guess is that PW-200 is trying to draw ...
- Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:10 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Power Meter Recommendations
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2975
I presume you have looked at this older thread? http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11364 My recommendation (Brennenstuhl) is at the bottom of it. I find it very useful that Brennenstuhl records the maximum power drawn, e.g., during a boot-up cycle. But I couldn't find an easy way t...