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Amp34

Amp34

Amp34

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Am I missing something but they are really expensive for what they are..:confused:

You can buy the connection bit for around £30 as people on here say but then you need to spend around another £30 to get the actual PSU/12v power adaptor bit. Is this correct? If that's the case then they really aren't £30...:p

(Just been looking into whether to buy a prebuilt nettop style thing or build my own...)
 
They aren't cheap but there is no fan so it is 100% silent. And they can be cramed into the most unlikely space!
 
Hyburnate said:
Streacom 150W Pico PSU with 150W Adapter Power Kit
£79.16 (£94.99 inc. VAT) :o
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Exactly, and for that much you can get a proper Fanless PSU!

I see the point of them but they are just so expensive compared to normal ones, especially when people falsly suggest they are in fact only £30...
 
a few people (like me ) have old monitor or laptop bricks lying around so they dont need to lay out on one, but I found out none of the ones I had were 12 volt so I had to buy a brick and pay postage, I also burnt out the first one I bought that was only 60 watt. but in the end its worth it !
 
compare size of fanless cpu to picopsu, what could you do with that space, more hdds's, smaller case?

space and to some extent reducing heat in the case are the main reasons to go picopsu

old laptop psu's are easy to pick up some of the older pentiaum models have silly high outputs
 
There well worth it. I got mine as there silent. You gotta remember there a lot more efficient compared to normal psu's.

You will be surprised how much a 150w will run.
 
i got a dodgy proliant microserver with a loud psu and high pitched whirring hard drive.

put a picopsu on and a wd green drive and problem solved.

drops your core temps down too as the psu is on the laptop like power brick instead, and it never even gets warm on a 30w idle.

compare that with a stock mini psu, and they can get hot
 
Amp34 said:
Am I missing something but they are really expensive for what they are..:confused:

You can buy the connection bit for around £30 as people on here say but then you need to spend around another £30 to get the actual PSU/12v power adaptor bit. Is this correct? If that's the case then they really aren't £30...:p

(Just been looking into whether to buy a prebuilt nettop style thing or build my own...)
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just get a nettop, a picopsu essentially allows a desktop machine to work off a laptop like brick battery.

but net tops base their design on a laptop anyway and have the passive psu prebuilt.
 
I have, just recieved a Zotac ND22 today, now I need to wait for the HDD and I have a nice little media box ready for less than £200!
 
I wish they had bricks that could power a sys like mine, ASUS H61 - EPU, UEFI BIOS and Anti-Surge Protection - mATX Intel H61(B3) Micro ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1155 Motherboard (P8H61-M LX) Intel Core i3-2100 Processor 3.1GHz 3 MB Cache
1333MHz 4 Gig DIMM-DRAM NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS with 512 DDR3 memory (PCIe 1.00 x16). Would be great to have this in a console sized case.
 
TBH that isn't particularly high end system , if it's not overclocked then it may very well be within range of a Pico.
 
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