Conroe with PicoPSU?

[dvdmonster]

I would love to run a system powered by a picoPsu 120W and i was wondering if it would be possible to run a system like this:

CPU E6300/E6400/E6000
Intel 965G Asus P5B-VM (onboard gfx)
2Gb DDR2 RAM
2.5" HDD

That's it.. pretty "light" system, but will 110-120W be enough?

Thanks in advance.

[|Romeo|]

I did the sum on a similar system, and reckoned that it would work. However, I had problems sourcing the Pico, so got decided to get an another FSP Zen instead. So I can't say definitely that it would work. You will definitely be running the brick pretty close to capacity (in the maximum power scenario of course)

[vincentfox]

I did something similar 3-4 years ago with an external DC power brick, and a little board in the case. I think I had a 60W adapter. This system ran great as long as I wasn't trying to run an optical drive off the same power supply. Everytime I would try to spin up a CD/DVD it would beep and reboot due to it sucking up too much power. Likely to be a big problem is cases of surging demand, not average operational needs.

[darthan]

You might do better to see if you can find a Merom and motherboard combo to do that. Merom should perform just the same as a Conroe, but it should be lower power as it is the laptop version. That would work for sure.

[smilingcrow]

I would love to run a system powered by a picoPsu 120W and i was wondering if it would be possible to run a system like this:

CPU E6300/E6400/E6000
Intel 965G Asus P5B-VM (onboard gfx)
2Gb DDR2 RAM
2.5" HDD

That's it.. pretty "light" system, but will 110-120W be enough?

That’s definitely possible. I measured 111W with a C2D clocked at 2 GHz (1.15V) using dual Prime95. That was with a 975X chipset board, discrete GPU, 2GB RAM and a 250 GB 3.5â€