Also looks like the slipstream slim is mounted to blow through the fins and away from the card. I don't know how effective this is over a more traditional fan placement with the fan blowing down into the card. Seems like intake for the fan would be heavily impeded. My naive Physics knowledge tells ...

I can do the clean install, always have in the past, but I was wondering why I should keep on doing it that way and not taking the easy route of simply upgrading with all my programs, files, etc. in place. The only reason I can think of for avoiding an upgrade-install is that it won't clean up the ...

The supplies at short-circuit.com all look like they put out way too many amps: even the 100W fanless brick says it puts out 10A. If I recall correctly, the Pico 150 is only rated for 8.5A input. That would start to fry stuff, wouldn't it? Restart. Now that I think about it, your problem is easily ...

The supplies at short-circuit.com all look like they put out way too many amps: even the 100W fanless brick says it puts out 10A. If I recall correctly, the Pico 150 is only rated for 8.5A input. That would start to fry stuff, wouldn't it? No. The current is not "put out" by the power supplies in t...

I am planning to borrow a pair of crimping pliers from my department workshop. Ran into a couple of problems. The crimp tool from our workshop was quite bad; it wasn't meant for Molex connectors. So I am planning to buy a crimp tool. The only one available in the UK seems to be a FrozenCPU tool for...

It's much harder to find 12V adapters to go with my 12V Pico. Have you looked at short-circuit.com? This is electrodacus's thread. So, if you would like help in mating the power supplies, please come over to the "Mating Dell DA-2 and PW-200-V" thread. I will be quite glad to help because I am going...

All decent fans should list their maximum airflow levels and the maximum noise level, which are presumably reached when the fan runs at 12V. Scythe Mini Kaze fans seem to do a good job very quietly. People that replace their CPU fans with the Scythe's go gaga over them! They cost only about $10 a pi...

Well, things change fast in this product line! The Corsair web site lists "performance series" drives, which are labeled by "P", and a newer "extreme series", which are labeled by "X". The extreme series have an "Indilinx Barefoot" controller. They have a smaller cache of 64MB but report higher spee...

Sure, there are other fanless AC adapters out there that are capable of delivering 80W - 100W or more of power, but they involve modding and soldering, and I don't have the tools or experience to hack apart a Dell DA-2 or an Xbox360 brick. Actually, electrodacus's adapters will also need modding. T...

The highest current for a 2.5mm connector is 5A and this is for the best quality connectors some lower quality are specified at 2A. So even 8A will be to much in my opinion (and I'm an electrical engineer) :D . Maybe you can tell us what the factor of safety in the design is. :D I guess Electrodacu...

Sorry for bumping an old thread.

Azenx Blitztromhas recieved some good reviews, e.g., this one and users on Tom's Hardware. Any opinions on this one?

Uday

The only way to be sure is to check the specs or the manufacturer's web site. Nobody makes coolers specifically for socket 478, but some coolers still come with mounting brackets for it. Scythe Ninja Mini is one of them.

barefootzero wrote: If you don't want to open the PSU case and are ok with something a little less elegant you could just clip the ones you don't need and cap them off.

How do you cap them off? Just insulating tape or something more fancy?

(Sorry for a basic question!)

Uday

I would be suspicious of the power plug on the PW-200. They don't label the maximum input current for that connector and I would be far from surprised to find out that the 8.5 Amp current limit is a fundamental product of that type of connector design. Good point. This spurred me into going and che...

It seems it gets paired with a 102W power adapter at most places. What should it be paired with? I don't want to destroy my components, so I'm hoping the experts here can give some guidance. Please look at the thread "Pico Psu 150Watt power brick or alternatives" where these issues have just been h...

Thanks Ryboto. That would have been an inexpensive solution but I didn't pursue it because I am no good with soldering/desoldering or to cut out a section of the ATX socket like Eitheta. I am pursuing the extension cable idea instead. I am also wondering if the voltage loss you experienced might hav...

You are probably referring to ITX boards and a PCI bracket will probably work but then there are people that use the PCI and the power supply is powerful enough to be used with bigger boards the PCI bracket will apply only to a limited number of boards and people. No, I actually have micro-ATX in m...

It appears that Kaze Q takes its power from the PSU rather than the motherboard. Am I right?

Do the fans shut down when the motherboard is shut down (either through power off or stand by)?

Uday

In any case, if you don't need the super-mini size of the picopsu, the DC/DC board offered by electrodacus looks like a v. good alternative. Well, as Mark has already noticed, this requires us to find space on the motherboard tray and drill holes to mount the board etc. It would be a lot more conve...

short-circuit.com sells a 150W AC adapter that they pair with the 150W picoPSU. So they do! It is funny it took so long for this thread to get to this point, even though short-circuit.com was mentioned early on. Both the AC adapter and the picoPSU are using 2.5mm jacks. So short-circuit.com are ign...

I have acquired a Dell DA-2 AC-DC powerbrick and PW-200-V pico power supply, but I am flummoxed by their connectors. Is there a pre-made Molex plug that fits into DA-2's receptacle connector?If not, can I replace the existing DA-2 connector with some other receptacle? For instance, there are 8-pin A...

Since the stock cooler is weak, the stock fans are designed to run at several thousand rpm's, typically 5000+. That is part of the reason they are noisy. Putting a Nexus fan will make it quiet but at 1000-1500 rpm, it won't produce enough air flow to cool the CPU. You can check how it works by insta...

Here is a mini-ITX cube tower http://www.frozencpu.com/products/9146/cst-918/Lian_Li_Mini-Q_PC-Q07_Mini_ITX_Mini_Tower_Chassis_-_Black_PC-Q07B.html?tl=g1c7s29 Looks cool, doesn't it? The micro-ATX tower I have in mind might be of a similar shape, only slightly chubbier. A height of 32cm should be pl...

I think the problem with your "fat" tower concept is that it is not aesthetically pleasing to the general public. In general, people don't like looking at computer cases. Trust me that I am quite sensitive to the aesthetic and visual issues, which are in fact what drove me to the current idea. I am...

i'm guessing that one of the reasons why you can't predict the cooling performance based only on low-wattage cpus is because of the insane amount of cooling surface area on the mugen 2... this cooler has over twice the fin area of the true and the megalehems. Indeed, the insane amount of cooling su...

The idea is that you want the hottest components near the top of the case to aid with natural convection and prevent the heat of those hot components from passing along to the cooler running components. The air will come in at the bottom, blown in by 2x12cm fans or a perhaps a new large 20cm fan, p...

The increased footprint is probably the reason why we are not seeing this. The reduced height makes sense when the system is on a desk but 25x25 is a little too big to put on a desk IMO. The footprint is no bigger really. NSK 1380 has a footprint of 27x34, about 920cm^2. P180 has a footprint of 21x...

Somebody thought of turning an IBM desktop PC sideways, and the modern tower was born. Shuttle, or perhaps Mac G4, started the cube revolution, by putting the motherboard flat on the ground. Isn't it time to combine the two ideas? That is, build towers where an mATX motherboard sits flat on the floo...

Hi. Theres a thread somewhere asking if the new Scythe Orochi would fit in the P180. The measures I have are 194mm for the height of Orochi and 212mm for the width for P180. That gives a clearance of 18mm for the case walls, motherboard, and processor, which is obviously not enough. I have tried to...

Do you read this site at all? The article is the 2nd newest listing on the front page. which could indeed be the reason it wasn't noticed. These are very new products. I am hoping there is someway that the SPCR editors could update the 'Recommended' lists as soon as an article about a new product i...