All fine, except: thoeng Wrote: > minimum voltage PSU
Not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean a very low-powered PSU? Probably not a good idea. A PSU only supplies as much current as needed, no more. So a 500 W PSU uses no more power than a 300 W PSU if it's connected to the same components. However an underpowered PSU will run hotter and under stress. It will be more prone to failure, and a PSU failure can destroy every component connected to it. Go with a good PSU probably in the 350 W range, and if you can, go for a good one. Antec Basiq or SmartPower, for example. Basic but good. BTW if you want to save power and have low noise, check out a 'VIA Mini-ITX motherboard' (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/). The processor consumes no more than 7.5 W and it has either a very low-speed fan or no fan at all (fanless). You need a special enclosure though and the whole thing is more expensive. Also don't discount those cheap motherboard + CPU combos. I have an ECS motherboard with a soldered-in AMD 1.2 GHz Duron that would be perfect for the job. I notice that Tiger Direct is offering cheap motherboards with separate 1.6 GHz AMD Durons for even less than I paid for that one, and the CPU is separate so it can be upgraded. The latest ECS motherboard + built-in CPU combos use a mobile AMD Athlon 2800+, which would be very high performance for something like this. Not excessively quiet though. But the whole combo may be even cheaper than a used PC. > > Also those guys who have dedicated slim box out there, how do you > control the box without monitor,keyboard, and mouse installed ? (i > really dont wanna physically touch the server to configure it > everytime) any recommendations ? Did you read about ClarkConnect's web GUI, TightVNC and NoMachine? That's what they do. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25892 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
