I need to set up a HTPC for the TV, it needs to be very quiet meanwhile don't need to be very powerful. I dislike Atom platform for its poor performance, instead a decent CPU such like Intel E7400 (or wait for 32nm product of next year) which is capable of soft decoding 1080 (plus a passive VGA card perhaps) is needed. I guess the total power consumption will not exceed 100W in load (this is also a design target).
BUT it's very difficult to select a proper PSU for such needs, since most quiet PSUs have a much higher capacity whose efficiency is generally not very good in low power consumption and the price is also very high. Meanwhile, they have a lower bound of fan speed which is not necessarily high for me.
Currently I'm considering Enermax Mod82+ 425 as an alternative, but I'm willing to find small capacity PSU without fan (do I need a mod?), such like the power adaptor used by a laptop (Lenovo W500 has a 95W PSU adaptor). Have you ever met similar situations and do you have some advices?
PSU recommendation for HTPC
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