My pico psu just arrived today, im still waiting for my mb and cpu to arrive so i tested it on my desktop pc, with similar specs: E5200 at stock speeds. same MB as im ordering Geforce 7300gs 4gb ddr2 ram Ocz Vertex SSD drive HSF: OCZ Vanguisher and i am tempted to order my self one for my desktop, i...

burebista wrote:With that Vcore and frequency in idle/medium load (fanless Ninja + Bolt-Thru) CPU temperature is room ambient + 4/5°C.

wow, 5* above room temp is nice!!

You could just buy a mobo that allows you to lower the CPU core voltage in the BIOS.... I was looking at them, and they are pricy, and im on a prety tight budget to get this system up and running again. i found a post a bout a month ago that showed which pins to block , but i cant remember what for...

edit: where can i order a 150 picopsu in the uk reasonably cheap? I bought mine from www.linitx.com Not sure if anywhere had it much cheaper - if I remember correctly, nowhere else I looked even had it in stock! Linitx were good to deal with though - prompt delivery and no complaints from me. Thank...

Assuming that the FX 5500 is fairly low power, you should be fine. You should probably invest $30 to upgrade that card to something a bit more modern, by the way. ;) i was planing to replace it, im looking for a lowish powerd pcie card. nvidia, and has a DVI and VGA output. any specific gpus i shou...

Im setting up a new fileserver/torrent system. and i would like to undervolt and under clock the cpu. i read somewhere that to lower the voltage supplied to the cpu, you have to put a bit of tape over one or more of the pads? i want to run it at 1.6ghz , how much voltage do i need for this sort of s...

MB: Asus P5KPL-AM iG31
CPU: E5200 @ 1.6ghz
HSF: OCZ Vanguisher
HDD: Hitachi DeskStar 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm & Segate Barracuda 80gb 7200rpm
GPU: GeForce FX 5500
RAM: GB DDR2 1066MHz

fans: 1*120mm and 1*80mm on 5v rail.


i can drop the 80gb hard drive if needed.


Thankyou Mark19891989