I've got an XFX V2 card with the egg cooler that I've had for about 3 months. The card has the original cooler installed. It's been registered, so the buyer will receive a lifetime warranty. I've had the card OC'd to 950/1300 since day 2 of owning it, and it's never given me an issue. I imagine with...

Lostcircuits found the load power consumption of the 1090(i think) to be 82W. Pretty impressive.

Tigerdirect has a $50 MIR on these, and if you use their financing you get an additional $20 off on orders over $100. Plus! if you use bing, you can get bing cashback, which saves something close to $90 total...pretty fricken cheap.

It should be enough, but the question is whether or not you need it. Do you have a small case you'd like to use and can't fit a standard PSU? The benefits of the Pico are small and efficient, but if you can fit a larger similarly efficient PSU for the same price, you'll most likely have more flexibi...

So, I removed the backplate, which also removes the socket retention thing, but the pressure of the HS keeps the CPU in place. Without the bracket, I see zero board flex. As for contact resistance, I believe it to be low. I was playing a game, so I wasn't monitoring temperatures, but my case is open...

~El~Jefe~ wrote:make an art sculpture with it and buy a cheaper one that's lighter?

Weight isn't the issue, it's the thickness of the DFI backplate. Plus, the boards sitting flat, i'm not using it in a tower style case.

There should be, because the Noctua mounting bracket is supposed to fit flush over the stock backplate as far as I can tell. I'll experiment. I would consider just hand tightening the screws, but even then, the board flex is higher than I'm comfortable with. I'll experiment when I get home and give ...

Take a look at the Thermalright mounting kits. Or get the ThermalRight Venomous X that have a fully adjustable mount. It is so good they are thinking about selling it as a stand alone. It givesw you complete control over the pressure. By the way, someone, somewhere else in these forums just complai...

Noctua responded to my emails, I even sent in some pictures. Apparently, on the MI P55-T36, the backplate DFI uses is thicker than the Intel spec, so that's why I get so much flex. They're updating their compatibility with the board to incompatible now. Sweet. Noctua certainly does provide good sup...

So, Noctua has told me the DFI backplate is thicker than the Intel spec, so that's why it doesn't fit right. Now I need to find a stock LGA 1156 backplate...where the hell do I do that? Take a look at the Thermalright mounting kits. Or get the ThermalRight Venomous X that have a fully adjustable mo...

I suggest setting a level of tension you feel comfortable and try to make all the mounting screws' depth about even -- you can do this just by eyeballing, but also with a spacer/guide of some kind. Then after the HSF is mounted, run Prime95 to ensure that the CPU is running cool enough. Noctua resp...

So, Noctua has told me the DFI backplate is thicker than the Intel spec, so that's why it doesn't fit right. Now I need to find a stock LGA 1156 backplate...where the hell do I do that?

I've just purchased a Noctua U9B-SE2 cooler to fit on a DFI MI P55-T36. The SecureFirm2 mounting system flexes the board waaay too much for me to be comfortable finishing the install. I have a question to the reviewer; Do the rubber pads of the backplate sit flush against the board when you install ...

Looks to me that the cause is that the motherboard is fairly thin, so I would say grit your teeth and get that CPU cooler mounted. Flex can look horrible and sometimes even impossible but as long as you can put the memory in OK, and the system will POST it is not a problem. I'm just hoping that if ...

Just purchased a Noctua U9B-SE2 and I'm attempting to mount the thing on a DFI MI P55-T36. Now, I'm following the directions EXACTLY. I've gone over them like 50 times, and my girlfriend watched me as I did everything as the directions describe(it's pretty simple), and yet when i attempt to screw do...

You should be perfectly fine. I ran a much more power hungry system with a PicoPSU 120 well before I ever split the 12v lines from the power brick. As long as you don't go over ~120-130W DC for sustained periods, you should be fine.

KayDat wrote:Is the Accelero S1 revision 1 or revision 2? I'm interested in getting one for my 5870, and I'm uncertain if revision 1 would work. Also, how much would shipping cost to Australia? Thanks.

Its a rev 2. I'll get back to you about australia after i check the cost.

Added Acellero S1 with choice of 120mm fan.

Does anyone know if a T-Rad2 will fit a 5770 v2? My S1 fits just fine, so I assume the same should be true for the T-Rad2.

The only issue with the Akasa is that it's larger than a dual slot cooler. So it's too tall for my needs. Also it uses proprietary fans.

I've been looking around, and I can only seem to find two coolers, the Scythe Mushashi, and Thermalright T-Rad2 GTX. If I mount a 12mm scythe fan on the T-Rad2, I should be just barely over the size of a standard dual slot cooler. This is about the same size as a Musashi. So, which would you recomme...

There is the possibility the pico and the board aren't compatible. I'd contact minibox about it. They were nice enough to talk to me over the phone when i had issues with the PW-200M. Thanks, I'll do that. So did you ever manage to resolve these issues you had, or did you end up changing to another...

@ryboto: small is GOOD.. but i'd like to have a flexible solution. For example, I like your antec but, for my needs, it's far too limited to have just one 5,25" slot... I'm yet searching and maybe I won't find the "ideal" but I would like to have room enough to put: 1) a 3,5" dock for a 2,5" drive ...

Well, this is different: only the mobo doesn't start up. Brick stays on, and all the peripherals keep running (hdd, the display etc). I'll need to test if it passes both 12v and 5v to the molex connectors, but it seems to do so. I'll test the picopsu with 12v input from that atx psu, when I have th...

I had similar issues with the DA/2 and a PW-200M, the larger version of the Pico. Wouldn't post, just tripped the brick into "off" mode, and the light on the brick would go from green to orange. It might be an issue with the brick/Pico compatibility. Something to do with voltage/current ramp up time.

@ces: Regarding the langear itx, are you talking about this one? http://www.lan-gear.com/miniITX_spec_mom.php http://www.lan-gear.com/img/miniITX_intro.jpg This isn't on the market yet? @charonme: I'm using a BE-2300 later I'll go for an AthlonII X2 240 or X4 630. For the heatsing i was thinking ab...

Still have the case and the motherboard.

Take a look at the lan-gear.net ITX case (not their matx case) . It may be another month before it is available. But I don't think what you are looking for truly exists. The taller ones are tall in order to make room for the PSU. This is the case I'm waiting for. Just going to have to use my mATX c...

What kind of power draw could an atom based file server really put on them? Lots of HDDs? maybe the 3.3/5v is being over-stressed? I've had a Pico powering my sig system of well over a year, and it was operating on a similarly power hungry system for over a year before that. Never had any problems. ...

You can't compare dbs from one benchmarker to another, bur you can compare them between different tests by the same benchmarker. The noise was already good at low in comparison to others (at least according to frostytech) even when handling a 140watt thermal load. This means you can let it run fast...