Should be working now. The space limit on the server for uploading images has been doubled. I changed the original title, "Home theater PC without a keyboard", for obvious reasons. Rebellious, feel free to start a new thread with that heading. What's the limit? I've never uploaded anything before, ...

False start, I'm trying to upload photos but I'm getting, "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached". Does the attachment feature work here?

PSU made by Gigabyte, interesting. Maybe it's time to review PicoPSU. I posted about the 150XT kit a while back and I'm still curious if these devices need a ground connection.

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I tried the PicoPSU 150XT kit with a more power-hungry AM3 Phenom II system and there is some whine at high load. It appears to come from the power brick.

This is what I get with my A8-4500M, probably similar to your A10 AmdMsrTweaker v1.1 .:. General --- AMD family 0x15, model 0x10 CPU, 4 cores Default reference clock: 100 MHz Available multipliers: 1 .. 19 Available voltage IDs: 0 .. 1.55 (0.00625 steps) .:. Turbo --- enabled locked Max multiplier: ...

So it's really NOT grounded! What's the solution? Plug a regular power cord into the mains and connect the ground wire to the chassis? The i5 3570K idles at 18W both Windows & Linux (with the optimized Intel video driver which is built into the kernel). It runs full screen Adobe flash with ~5% CPU u...

Ha! Are you the johannes that posted amdmsrtweaker-lnx in xtremesystems? Anyway, I've installed the PicoPSU 150XT kit, seems stable even with the i5 3570K clocked to 4.4GHz, S3 is good, and no coil whine. My only concern is whether the mobo/chassis are properly grounded. The 12V power connector has ...

BTW, I have a PcioPSU 150-XT and an Asus P8Z77-I DELUXE/WD, but haven't tested yet. I will sometime next week, and will listen for any coil whine. I have a hard time believing that Pico is equivalent to a $120 ATX PSU, and to trust that it's equally stable, especially during S3.

Please ask if you need more detailed measurements or photos for the PicoPSU. I don't think the PicoPSU creates much EMI - all it does is to forward 12V signals and convert 3.3V and 5V signals from the 12V signal. Changing frequencies or voltage is actually much simpler than I thought. You "just" ha...

Thank you. Yeah the PicoPSU would be a tight fit with adjacent RAM sticks. I don't even know if memory modules are susceptible to EMI interference (from the PicoPSU). AmdMsrTweaker was just updated to support Trinity and Richland, so perfect timing on your part. There's nothing for Linux yet, k10ctl...

Isn't paper cardboard a fire hazard? This PicoPSU has some bulky hardware on the large plug that goes into the 24-pin power connector. Most Mini-ITX mobos have the memory slots right next to the 24-pin connector, but not yours. So it looks like the PicoPSU capacitors might touch the memory modules o...

From the small indents in the aluminum foil it looks like it maybe protecting components that where directly under the drive. But in all honesty im just guessing, is it padded ? The photo is not mine, I found it while googling and linked it. My disk is completely wrapped in aluminum foil and the mo...

The 2.5" disk in my Samsung laptop comes wrapped in an aluminum foil envelope. There is also a piece of aluminum over the memory modules. I replaced the disk with an OCZ Vertex SSD, but I didn’t reuse the aluminum pocket because the SSD seems to have an aluminum case of it’s own. What is the purpose...

Is that foamy stuff blown-in to fill empty spaces, or just stuffed-in? It looks like Sealed Air's Instapak product. The foam is created when 2 chemicals are mixed together. The custom fit is achieved by putting the bag in place and closing the container while the foam is still expanding. Here's a v...

Good catch on the buzzing noise Mike. You are already getting hand-picked samples that are not representative of what customers get, so it's only fair to report the problem. You've given seasonic good reviews over the years, so people may get the impression it's just subtle advertising. I still want...

wow, that's the best packing job I've ever seen. Is that foamy stuff blown-in to fill empty spaces, or just stuffed-in?

What is the improvement over the prolimatech mk-13? The mk-13 is much more versatile, mounts the fans to the case and you can use the same fan bracket to support the GPU/cooler assembly, so it has no droopies.

I'm booting my OS from a 16GB Transcend flash drive that I bought for about $20. It's an SDHC UHS-I card running at about 50-70MB/sec on USB3. Supposedly these drives wear out, but I've never seen it happen yet. I can take them with me and boot Linux off any machine -- portability. So it must be a h...

Thank you. I'm curious as to your criteria for including comparable coolers in your comparison tables. Do you consider 4-heatpipe and 6-heatpipe coolers to be in a separate performance category? I'm curious because I noticed that my 6-pipe Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme Rev.C performs similar to my ...

How come GPU heatsinks go directly on the die, whereas CPUs have a IHS ??

TIM alone cannot account for 12C temp reduction, there's something else at play here. I've seen TIM product comparisons and the difference is about 1 degree.

If you're running any software (eg, SpeedFan, AIDA) that monitors the disk temperature (via SMART), it will spin up the disks even when they are idle. I tried several times to get XP to spin down my idle disks, and eventually gave up. In my situation, it was best to let them spin all the time. Than...

I have several new 2.5" 500GB Hitachi HTS725050A7E630 and HTS727550A9E364. They make the "clink" parking noise, in XP they do it constantly, in Win7 less so but it's still very annoying. In Linux they don't do it at all . Something in the Windows OS keeps accessing the disks even when they're idle, ...

Is the USB 3.0 BIOS-bootable? Can you boot & run an OS from a USB3 flash drive?

Your link states: "The hard drive did not meet the required number of samples needed to be charted." For all you know, you're going on a single report which could easily be bogus. Putting your speculations in bold doesn't make up for the lack of extraordinary evidence an extraordinary claim require...

HFat wrote:You don't know for a fact that there any difference, do you?

According to this, the HTS725050A7E630 is much faster, but you might need a new mobo to support 6GB sec.

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_list.php

rpsgc wrote:They are the same model. OEM vs Retail.

Thank you.

This one is much faster and newer? Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 HTS725050A7E630 (0J26005)

Hitachi is still around :) Their latest 7K500 = HITACHI Travelstar H2IK5001672SP (0S02858) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145361 also marketed as: HD20500IDK/7K 0S00157 HTS725050A9A364 H2IK5001672SP 0S02858 What's the difference? The reason I'm asking is, as you can see fro...

Form factors info???? What adapter do you need to install this in a Lian Li PC-Q11 ?

I’ve noticed a difference between the new X-series (including X-650) and the older M12. Every time there is a momentary power outage the PCs with M12 keep working but the X-series reboot. Can anybody confirm that?