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Mainboard soll auch in Deutschland auf den Markt kommen und wird wohl über 200 Euro kosten

Everybody should be able to understand that

They don't tell their sources nor exactly when, but they are usually well informed.

and the European one as well.

Was it due to numerous emails ?

Anyway, it's a pity their sales channels sucks here (it's really difficult to find a precise aopen component besides cases).

If you don't overclock, 550W is pure BS.

I measured a A64 3000+, MSI K8(FISR?), 2x512, Radeon 9200, 1 HDD, DVD, FDD at about max. 180W AC (= from the wall).

but it's still strange that they don't follow their naming convention.

The name should be something like MX7GM ...

wait 'n see.

Umh, now a 1.7 GHz centrino is about 270€ here ...

The official aopen.co.jp product page is here and the announcement here.

It didn't appeared in the other (glogal, eu, us) websites, altough in their "motherboard search" page, the i855GME chipset apears in a drop-down box.

It's around 103mm, I measured it at 107mm with the last heatpipe stuff.

(from the white plastic of the socket, was in a live pc, so it may be off by a few mm)

with a screwdriver

(yep, they are screwed and easily put out / in)

Already done in the gallery forum.

I removed the PSU, put a DC-DC board (+ external brick) and huge heatsink.

It isn't passive, fan @5V.

been there, done that, got no problems
(HP DVD-Writer 200i, almost 1year)

but I'd like to recommend you to think about a bigger tower for 2 or 4 IDE drives to firewire. If the goal is to have it fixed or mostly fixed (not mobile), it can be useful after when you add HDD.

Strange, I got no problem either ...

What you can try also is to find the appropriate arctic cooling VGA silencer (see a review, the whole family). Maybe the NV1 fits ?

Yep, the brick is only good if you don't OC too much or if you don't add the video card.

Other than that, the fan on the fortron looks too small and it seems that the fan on the enermax is easily swappable ...

I'm running an 24/7 HTPC based on a p3 and an integrated motherboard.
Max. power consumption is 79W
Electricity price is about 0.22 CHF / kWH

So, I'm paying around 0.080 x 24 x 30 x 0.22 = 12.7 CHF / month (8.5 €).

Broadband cost around 70 CHF (46 €).

What about a passive one with an external brick ? (see here).

Depends on what you have in your system ...

What you can find are bridge board, which are the basis of those external boxes. I researched some times ago for Firewire <-> IDE and found many of those, which accept 2 drives, are daisy-chainable, and cost less than 50€. Most of them are oxford911 (for FW4000) and 922 (FW800) based, specs here ....

I'd got further from MikeC suggestion and replace the whole PSU with an external one, eventually by hacking the actual one. In bonus, you can get a better heatsink. This is obviously a shamelss plug to my post in the gallery forum . Otherwise, I have the impression that the PSU fan could be set to a...

http://www.dagonnier.be/albums/Silent/DSCN0279.sized.jpg - CPU : P3-S 1.26 GHZ (stock clocked) - Mboard : AOpen MX36LE-N - PSU : external brick + DC/DC converter (look on top) - Heatsink : Aerocool DP-102 - Fan : NMB 120mm @5V - HDD : Samsung 120gb (suspended in the 5.25 space) - TV: PVR350 temps :...

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Just to throw my 2ç, I just build up a A64 3000+ at work (9200SE, 1Gb RAM, 1HDD, 1DVD, nobrand PSU) and ... - power draw : from 80 to 125W from the wall - motherboard : I would say one with nForce3 250, e.g. MSI K8N Neo Platinum or Asus K8N-E Deluxe. You just have one ethernet, but that's gigabit wi...

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just FYI, I've measured with a wattmeter the following :

P3-S 1266, AOpen mATX, PVR350, HDD, DVD, A few blink blink LEDS

and got 89W @ 100% (cpu, hdd, dvd running).

A price quote for the MB860 would be nice to have, as this one has the CPU included in it ...

Umh, if it's just that ;) (any other brand could have the same problems) Otherwise, I would say that for your request, if it's analog output, I would say that my general consensus is a Matrox G400 that can be found for cheap somewhere (I use one for ages). Otherwise, if you're not forced to have a s...

by curiosity, what was your problem with matrox ?

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Well, then you'll be even more if I tell you what I entered into the search field ...


I copied 'n pasted your very own topic

that's why I thought you didn't searched and exactly why it's difficult to answer in those cases

it's always difficult for me to find the good balance answer those kind of question ... how to point out that there's a search engine, that a little bit of research before would be better before posting without saying or meaning "you're really stupid" Anyway, to have answers to your question, you ca...

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A UK shop linitx.com has them up to 150 W. In fact I'm investigating that, especially since I measured the P3 system I want to power with and that it's from 60W to 68W at full load, taken from the wall, and it's powered with a cheap PSU (probably 60% efficiency). EDIT: the 150W has a small fan, the ...

Ok, so much for me, I'll read slower next time :oops: But anyway, they are other things to consider for the bulk of pc - the "sticker" factor : people will feel that the computer goes faster if it has a sticker with "6 GHz" on it ... ;) - multi-threaded applications (euuuh, they exists, no ?) - also...

I've really got too much time on my hand and I will now fiercully flame back toward the above answers from SCPR's master reviewers ('cause of bluefront's thread, it's his fault) :twisted: :wink: :arrow: there's a big difference between theory and practice ... In theory, it's easy to have better airf...