Low power picopsu system suggestions

[pillow]

Hi all,

I'm just finishing up a case building project for my htpc system and I'm currently looking to upgrade the CPU.

Currently running an AMD E350 downclocked to 1GHz (400MHz idle) with 2 western digital green drives and a Kingston SSD. Everything is powered by a picopsu.

Unfortunately the E350 lacks the grunt to properly play Sky player at maximum quality (it stutters and then reverts to the lower quality) even when I return the CPU to 1.6GHz (I think this is more an issue with Silverlight and gpu acceleration not working on it)

In any case I'm looking for something with more grunt so that I can play Sky player on the highest quality setting whilst maintaining my HTPCs idle power consumption (14 watts at the wall)

I'm currently eyeing up either baytrail or kabini but anyone with experiences with power consumption on a picopsu would be great! Also any other suggestions are welcome as its only idle power consumption I'm worried about.

 

[chippy08]

I have kabini will check later for you

My build is

AM1H-ITX
5350 CPU
120watt power brick
120Gig ssd
3TB wd green drive

20watts while idle in windows 8.1 with power brick plugged straight in to the Board but if i try my Pico psu it might be different as picos are very good at power saving as you know.

 

[LePhuronn]

That's just Sky Player for you! My i5 2500 rig and 2010 Macbook Air can't run it properly.

AMD's Kabini is looking like a good prospect for something cheap and low power to do what you want.

 

[pillow]

Thanks for that figure chippy08. Would I be right in guessing it's 20 watts with the hard drive spun up?

@LePhuronn
Yep, sky player is a real s*** but when I want to watch the football from the comfort of my own room it's my only option!

I am really leaning towards Kabini at the moment but would like to hear from anyone with Baytrail + pico and what sort of power consumption they get.