Can any one tell me what sort of power requirements an old Socket 370 board has? I want to passively cool and power an old machine, not got an real purpose in mind but i have the hardware and i'm bored. I was thinking about the passive power supplies for epia boards, they only produce about 80w and i wondered if this would be enough? It'll be drive less, booting from the network and i think i have a via c3 chip to go in it so the power requirements off the board are pretty low.
I'm not that into these old sockets but if I would know the processor model I could propably help more. I have an old Pentium (1) with a Riva TNT PCI and it has a 200W PSU.
80W, probably, but you can get 120-150W ones now iirc. The biggest problem is the current draw from a hard drive when booting which you say you won't have. That VIA CPU will be super-super slow mind.
The high power ones are quite expensive, so i was thinking 80w is a nice range. I remember the c3 being brutal to use in windows but i'll probably just run it cli. I belive a P3 is about 25w and the C3 is about 10w, do you think i'd get away with running a p3?
Yea, I ran a P3 1.2, 512MB of memory, a mini-ITX board and TWO hard drives off a 120W PSU as a NAS box. It's still working now in my parents house - it's been upgraded with a second 320GB drive into a RAID-1 + FreeNAS in a Cubit3. It's fantastic - I have a single 80mm on the back cooling the entire thing and a huge heatsink that's held on with rubber bands
