If it is not starting up under normal 12V power, then obviously you need to RMA it and get another one.

If your graphics card has a separate 12V power input (PCI-E), then you are in luck. You can use Ryboto's method of feeding separate 12V circuits to the CPU, graphics card and the motherboard. The PicoPSU would be only involved in the last of these. The rough budget of power I suggest is 70W for each...

A-tech is a boutique shop, they charge you for everything. I suppose "boutique shop" also means that they assume that their customers know nothing and they tell them nothing so that they can rip them off easily? They are also supposed to have excellent quality. the pico 150XT is not in their list a...

They don't say who makes these power supplies. To me, they look the same as the DC-DC boards that mini-box sells. A-Tech is thankfully mounting a sensible 6-pin input power connector, and charging $15 for the service. Add a P4 connector and another $15 for that! Nice business.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me on this desperate search for the perfect fans! :D But perfect fans are not small and slim. In fact, they are large and fat. Fans are there to move air. The smaller, slimmer fans need to run faster to move the same amount of air as the large fans and, s...

Hi, I was planning to go in the same direction by mounting a fan controller, but found that I didn't need to. I am running my system with a single 120mm CPU fan mounted on Akasa Evo. (My motherboard has two fan headers.) The CPU fan is directed towards the back of the case and, so, serves as an exha...

Nice post Gosh! It is! In another thread, we were talking about how nothing much is happening on the Silent PC front, with no new exciting products, and how things are pretty much coasting. But the PicoPSU is an exception to this general scene. It is exciting , which partly explains why such possib...

Since most people who have chimed in so far think that the 150 is cutting it really close, do most people think the 200 should be fine, then? I am a bit less enthusiastic about PW-200 power supplies now than when I wrote my earlier post in this thread. Since then, Eddie666 reported that PW-200 didn...

But why flush to the HDD? That makes sense if you have something like a RAM disk and a HDD but with a SSD I don't see the point. A modern SSD is both faster and more reliable than a HDD. faster and more reliable, but more expensive. People seem to want 1TB of storage these days. An SSD of that size...

It is easy enough to find a mounting bracket that can load a 2.5" SSD and a 2.5" HDD into one 3.5" bay. There are even mounting racks that take care of the connectors for you. But that is of course not what these guys are after. They are hoping that an OEM will sell a SSD+HDD combo, presumably for a...

Thanks for the link. But I couldn't tell what the differences are from the original U12P.

What is your reasoning behind thinking they are not accurate at measuring average power consumption? Oh, they are probably ok for measuring average power consumption. But I am not confident that they do a good job of measuring the peak power draw, which is what we need to know to decide the capacit...

Altho, I tested it this night, undervolting the CPU and it went all right. Well, congratulations! But that heatsink is troubling me, where can I find any good heatsink that can fit into it cause over here, all computers shop are way too small to have any in stock and even order one for me. Try the ...

Here is the info on it from the playtool page.

Catching wrote:I think its problem of your motherboard.. try to check your machine by Technical and whats the actual problem kindly post it

"Technical"?

I personally don't see any reason to use 3.5" disks any more. Even when people used 3.5" disks, they tried to cut down their usage to the 2.5" portion of their disks if they cared about the seek noise and performance. So why bother now? I have Corsair X64 (2.5" solid state drive) and Seagate Momentu...

On that base, can I simply go and test stuff until what I get satisfy me ? Or is there any chances ( Bad chances ) that I'll break off my CPU ? Yes, you will break the CPU eventually if you keep overheating it. If it goes to 70C, you should terminate or suspend the processes that are loading the pr...

Before I started the PC I was surprised to see it was pulling 10W from the wall socket, - would this be the power supply ?...and is it an overhead I can discount with a Pico PSU ? So far it looks as though I could comfortably power this system with a 120W Pico PSU......but have I missed anything ? ...

Hi doveman, Where did you buy the EF28 board from? Most places I can see are selling it together with the MCubed brick, and the combination is quite expensive. Also, do you know if MCubed made the board themselves or they are just branding it? Uday PS: I wish I paid to attention to your signature li...

It seems to me that only possible thing is CPU Fan, or GPU fan or... RAM (i have no ram fan, so...). Chips don't make noise. However, when loaded, they might draw a lot of current and thereby tax the power supply. Or, they might generate too much heat or force the power supply to generate extra hea...

On setting up the final build it went from silent to horrendously noisy. The culprits turned out to be the HDDs. Watercooling or passive solutions; they would make no difference. The only real sound comes from the disk drives. Sorry Per. On my first reading of the thread, I didn't read this far dow...

If so, you might consider an mATX X58 board with i7-920 CPU. Also, the Arctic Cooling S1 heatsink is said to do a fine job on an HD 5850. i7's are 125W CPU's compared to 95W i5's. So, they need significantly more cooling. I would bet that no cooler with a 96mm fan would be able to satisfactorily co...

In the meantime I found a FSP150-AHBN1 available at Kustompcs.. http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1666.html for £46.00 and they also stock the picoPSU-150-XT The FSP power brick is being sold with 2.5-5.5mm jack that is rated for up to 8A of current, but to get 150W at 12V, you need to draw...

You can ask Prolimatech whether the cooler is compatible with your motherboard. They are usually very prompt in getting back.

But not available in UK ? Hi Taidi, Cov from London ordered his power supplies from short-circuit.com and reported good experience. Her Majesty's Customs can charge some extra, but it is probably no worse than the VAT we have to pay here normally. Just don't select USMail/Royal Mail for shipping be...

The top-line CPUs are 125 watts and the GPUs are slowly getting there. The available cases are not big enough to hold the coolers needed for these power hogs. People are wondering things are supposed to be getting smaller but why are they getting bigger. Most people just do email, word processing an...

Normally, speakers don't need any power. It is the amps that do. PC speakers often need power because they have amps built inside them. (But note that only one of the two or several speakers needs power, the one that has the amp.) If you have a separate amp, then you should be able to connect it to ...

Thanks very much AuraAllan. I was planning to put a switch for the 'remote' lead of DA-2. So I was curious if you were doing it too. But it looks like you have the remote lead permanently shorted to GND. The pin 1 line, I will probably leave disconnected in my connector.

I am also at a similar impasse with regard to PW-200. Using an FSP150 power brick (with a matching 2.5mm jack), it was able to power the motherboard with 27W observed peak power. But it couldn't do it along with the CPU (65W rating) or the GPU (53W rating). My guess is that PW-200 is trying to draw ...

I presume you have looked at this older thread? http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11364 My recommendation (Brennenstuhl) is at the bottom of it. I find it very useful that Brennenstuhl records the maximum power drawn, e.g., during a boot-up cycle. But I couldn't find an easy way t...