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Lovely case.
Would like to build a cheap Dual core system in one.
Would like to build a cheap Dual core system in one.
New build: low wattage (<20w) idle, totally passive, gaming HTPC
- Thread starter Bigsy
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Will be in a few days just waiting for a few more components to arrive
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Can a pico psu run two Sata hard drives as from the pics it looks like it only has one sata power connector? 
Soldato
Yes, just get yourself a y lead.
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Awesome, Thanks!
Bumping this thread to see what the results were.
The i5 is about 10w over the recommended so I'd love to know what happened (interested in getting an i5 and one of their cases).
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Would an i3 cpu be a better bet?
Should be fine, cpu-z thinks my overclocked A-3500 is ~90watts TDP and it has perfectly respectable temps.
There's a 65w i5 in the ivy bridge line up
Hi,
Still wanted to post the result of my (similar) build from recent weeks for us as a HTPC/ media server; thanks for all the info on this forum !
AMD A6-3500
Gigabyte A75N-USB3
Samsung 64 GB SSD
Maxtor 320 GB harddisk (5 years old)
4 GB of RAM
Streacom 150W picoPSU
Works great so far, runs Gentoo and installed tvheadend and some other stuff.
Power usage at idle (HD spinned down): 29Watt
This is somewhat higher then the 19Watt mentioned by Bigsby, but this is a different mobo (slightly less efficient according to xbitlabs), and is including an extra (old) harddisk, a 150 W power brick (for a system that barely uses 60 Watt at max), and a fan still running, so I reckon power consumption might drop some more if I would change some of that.
Thanks for all the useful info !
Alex.
Still wanted to post the result of my (similar) build from recent weeks for us as a HTPC/ media server; thanks for all the info on this forum !
AMD A6-3500
Gigabyte A75N-USB3
Samsung 64 GB SSD
Maxtor 320 GB harddisk (5 years old)
4 GB of RAM
Streacom 150W picoPSU
Works great so far, runs Gentoo and installed tvheadend and some other stuff.
Power usage at idle (HD spinned down): 29Watt
This is somewhat higher then the 19Watt mentioned by Bigsby, but this is a different mobo (slightly less efficient according to xbitlabs), and is including an extra (old) harddisk, a 150 W power brick (for a system that barely uses 60 Watt at max), and a fan still running, so I reckon power consumption might drop some more if I would change some of that.
Thanks for all the useful info !
Alex.
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