Project: Mini-mal-TX :: Smallest PC || **UPDATE - small lazers (post#61)

where did you get that 40mm. fan that sits at the cpu cooling profile.

 

i think that a chipset colling..
he put it on the CPU ..
the product is Akasa ak210

 

right !
quieter, cooler

 

Wow Looking good...

 

thanks

UPD !!!!!!!

(sorry, but bad UPD)
the motherboard has failed BIOS, because of stupid VIA bug in BIOS 1.16.
I will send it back and should get another. hope soon....

I still hesitate between buying barebone PSU. which can be small, but expensive
or using modded normal PSU that I already have, but a bit larger....

Av

 

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i hope that you wiil get a new bios
i think that you need to buy the PSU
you need to do the best in your project!
if you can - why not?
what are your plans for this project, have any sktechs?
how big the case that are you planning?

 

I think you should go for one of those DC-DC power supplies with the external "brick". They're pretty tiny, and being rated at around 60W should run fairly cool. Having said that, I'd be interested to see what you'd do with the standard ATX supply...

 

I totally agree for the DC-DC.
what type do you recommend ?
where should I buy it ?

Avner

 

www.mini-itx.com
www.itx-warehouse.co.uk

 

These are seriously expensive...

I found something for ~60EUR in France,
since next month I will go to a trip in France...
untill then I wait for the mobo...

Av

 

Well my mini-ITX case with external power brick only ran about $80, but then outside of the US you tend to get much higher prices for comp parts. My vote went to dc-dc psu, however modding a normal one would be very interesting. You could probably have it open case and fanless and not have problems unless you manage to short something.

 

actually that's what I did

i desoldered all mosfets and placed them on an external Heatsink
capacitors were soldered and layed on their side to reduce the height.
total height is not more than the main transformator of the PSU
it's nice, but has a big PCB, and of course nothing to compare with a DC-DC small PCB...
I think that for 65EUR I will buy that 200W DC/DC which is decent enough

Avner

 

THIS IS NOT DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UPD Time !!

EPIA M10000 isn't back yet,
but maybe I will use another mobo, like COMELL LV-667 which is more modern than the EPIA (Has 3 IEEE1394, 2 LAN, 6 USB, 2 SATA etc....)
so at the mobo level, it should be established within a week or 2....


I thought about the power indication lights....
I'll be using special OFLCL (Optical Fiber LED Canon Lights)

Blue will be for the POWER indicator
Red for the HD activity
Green for the LAN activity

I guess these are 0.5mm fibers, or even a bit less....
I have to get much stronger resistors, so the LEDs will be brighter.

Casing design ant building will be continued when the mobo arrives...

 

i assume ur going to jumble these different colors up in the end? cuz if u got like 6 different colors, each showing different kinds of activity, then mixed them all up , but had them all flat against a piece of flexi it would look so cool to see them all moving at different times, kinda like a lil light show.

 

E-X-A-C-T-L-Y

 

Avner
Great Mod so Far
But you have to tell me From Where You got these Optical fibers

Im from Israel too

 

Hello orenc17....

 

Thanks Man

 

any updates???

 

sorry, but not yet

The EPIA M10000 hasn't arived yet,
And the COMELL mobo is not here as well.

it might be paused a bit, til' I get one of the mobos.

Avner