Looks like the i5-2500T will be a hard one to find, the site I pre-ordered from hasn't gotten it in stock so I'm going to cancel my order and get the i5-2400 and see about undervolting it (I'll have to do some reading).

The newer PicoPSU has a connector behind the barrel plug so you can attach different connectors, so instead of removing it and wiring the DA-2 directly to the board with a plug I decided to make an adapter plug to connect it. http://i.imgur.com/L94Rbl.jpg It looks a bit messy as my dremel died (you ...

Anyone know what the amp rating is for the 4-pin connector on the PicoPSU is? I'm talking about the 4-pin connector used to attach the barrel connector, see this photo . I was going to use part of a P1 connector to plug the DA-2 into an adapter that would connect to the 4-pin connector but I wasn't ...

Like I said, I like to remove the weak barrel connector that comes standard with the picoPSU. It's rated for 5A or something if I'm not mistaken. I also feed the ATX +12v 4pin connector directly from the brick. It helps to have a few spare things lying around, I usually cut the ATX +12v 4pin connec...

The picoPSU needs tweaking to work fine on a relative high power system. I will go Sandy Bridge myself soon and I will probably use the Intel graphics and might go with the Winmate instead of the picoPSU. I will probably lose some efficiency but I will get a filtered +12V rail. What sort of tweakin...

How far can you take this without messing with the cables. I pulled up the manual for the PicoPSU and it can accept an input up to 12V 18A. The easiest way would be to do what the OP in that other thread did and pull a male connector off a board and hack it to fit the Dell DC connector. After that ...

That sounds favorable for me, I dug around and found this post that went into some detail on wiring it to a similar PSU. When I get home tonight I'll take a look at the PicoPSU in my desktop to see how that would work with it. Without a real pin-pin layout I'm not confident about going this method b...

I took a look at the 6450 and the performance is pretty much on-par with the Sandy Bridge GPU :/ I've purchased all the parts excluding the PSU. Disappointingly the 2500T isn't available through many retailers so that was purchased separate from everything else, but I should have all the parts in a ...

Obviously it's your decision, but as I said before, even with the Winmate rather than the PICO, and even with the 5670 (AMD TDP for reference card = 64W) rather than the 9800, you'll have basically zero (or less!) headroom. Personally, I wouldn't even consider doing this. Solid point, as I mentione...

1. Why not use the winmate. It gives you 24 extra watts. You can use those watts for a more powerful cpu. 2. You probably have already considered this. But the 2500K has a double fast graphics processor. The 2600K graphics processor is about 22% faster than even the 2500K. Could you get by with jus...

Your card of choice currently is the Zotac 9800 GT. Not a monster. Incidentally, the Radeon 5670 performs pretty much the same. And uses a good 30w less power. Without a PCI-E 6/8-pin connector, which means it draws its power from the PCI-E slot. Which should reduce the 12v power draw. If you combi...

Whi not place the Seasonic on the outside like you would have the Pico PSU? It can't be more work doing this than the alternative? The 100% modularity should make it relatively easy. My intent with going with Mini-ITX + PicoPSU is to reduce the physical footprint of the computer. Placing the Season...

Don't forget that although the PICO XT-160 is rated for a total output of 160 Watts, it's only rated for 8A on the 12V line. 8 x 12 = 96W. I knew there was a limitation on the rails but didn't realize it was that bad. It looks like I would get by with that PSU without the video card, with it and I'...

ces wrote:What technique do you intend to use to cut the hole in the top?

I'm going to drill holes for each screw point then indent it with a screwdriver (so screws are flush with the case) and then scratch out the circle for the vent, drill a hole in the center, then use tin snips to cut it out.

Thermaltake A2329 fans Those are 120mm fans. How exactly do you intend to use them? They can't fit they way I thought you said you were going to use them.... not even one let alone two? It was mostly brainstorming, I think 80mm will fit in there but finding quiet ones can be a bit challenging. I'm ...

What I am thinking of doing with this case is instead cutting a round hole on the top and covering it with a filter. I would use either a 140mm Filterright filter or the 180 mm filter intended for the 180mm silverstone 180mm fan. With the space that opens up I was thinking of putting a downdraft co...

Just so you know, old video cards have crappy idle power. The stock 9800GT uses ~35W. I can't imagine the Zotac will use much less. A current gen card will idle at 10-15W. So, any efficiencies you might hope to get by using the picopower PSU and a gaming video card without an external connector jus...

I really should log in more often :oops: Right now I'm running the following: Zotac GF9300-D-E (Rev 0) mini-itx board 2GB DDR2-800 (Tried upgrading it to a 4GB kit but pc fails to post, too cheap to buy another kit) Intel E7200 proc WD 2.5" Scorpio 500GB PicoPSU 90W This was originally built to be a...

I was looking at the 2500 but according to the intel spec page it has a 95W TDP while the 2500T has a 45W TDP. Good call on the Gigabyte board, it has a few more options that interest me plus the power connectors are closer together which is better for the PicoPSU (I had to modify the 4-pin connecto...

I desperately need to replace my desktop (which was my htpc until I sold my actual desktop) but decided to hold off until Sandy Bridge was out. This is my tentative build for the new pc: Asus P8H67-I Intel i5-2500T Zotac ECO 9800GT WD 2.5" Scorpio 500GB PicoPSU 160W That's the current plan for the b...

My main goal is to keep the costs as low as possible as I'm saving up for the move (will need about 5K for air fare+living costs) so that means using the same case if it's feasible. I'm probably going to purchase a PicoPSU after I have set up the computer, I'm going to check the power draw with my K...

The case is crazy small and I always forget just how much hardware is inside it :P I took a couple pictures to show the placement of the drives: http://i.imgur.com/JN8tNl.jpg I suspended the IDE drive using a shoelace I had laying around, you can see one Sata drive attached on the side, the second i...

I only plan on a dual-boot between Windows 7 and Linux. I'm going to use VMware to run Windows XP inside a VM on linux. I'm only going to have one 2.5" drive which will be running both operating systems, on my desktop I did have separate drives for each OS when I was running Vista, XP, and Linux on ...

I'm going to be moving to Sudan at the end of the year and intend on taking a computer with me for watching shows and for touching up photos in Adobe Lightroom. The problem with that is I have all my media stored on a file server with two 2TB disks striped together and use my HTPC to watch the video...

I measured it yesterday and it came out to be approximately 65mm. Would that match up?

Edit: It's this card. Pretty much the same just one less output.

I've got 7 of these video cards and the fan is obscenely loud on them. The fan has actually failed on 3 of them (doesn't spin freely) so I want to replace the heatsink+fan assembly.

Anyone know where I can buy replacement coolers for these cards?

I've discovered a really wonky issue with the G45/X4500HD with XBMC.

If you have an issue with video playback where it will slow down, speed up, and be really choppy, kinda like this. Plug a usb flash drive in.

Have you tried contacting Jetway directly? Yes. It was about a month ago though. They told they would contact me when the device would be available in my area. The haven't contacted me. I'll try emailing them again. Ask if you can purchase it directly from them. This has worked in the past for me w...

Have you tried contacting Jetway directly?

It's not exactly what you were asking for, but did you check your BIOS to make sure that your HDD has boot priority over the DVD drive? If you didn't switch it back after an OS install, or disable the drive as a boot device in the BIOS, then that might be the cause of your boot delay and noise. Jus...