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bluet's avatar
14 years ago
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bluet
I want to either get these:

http://www.prisguide.no/produkt/133330
http://www.prisguide.no/produkt/114052

Or these:

http://www.prisguide.no/produkt/127659
http://www.prisguide.no/produkt/110042
Some power supply

Which set of components should I go for, though? I like the power supply that comes with the first alternative. Hmm...

In any case, I want to get two of these:

http://www.prisguide.no/produkt/119225
lucas's avatar
14 years ago
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can you use smaller power supplies with the first alternative?
Carpetsmoker's avatar
14 years ago
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Martin
The Asus AT5IONT-I has a newer CPU & chipset. Don't know what exactly you want to use it for, but in general I would go for that one.

I have two Atom 330 machines btw, both running FreeBSD and work pretty well. You do notice it's an Atom at times though (performance-wise that is).

As for the SSD: I got a OCZ Onyx 32GB for my thinkpad two weeks ago. Pretty good price/quality ratio IMHO.
http://www.prisguide.no/produkt/124300

BTW. that site is crap. Did some 1337 haxx0r rot13 all the text for fun? pff, what amateurs.
bluet's avatar
14 years ago
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bluet
> can you use smaller power supplies with the first alternative?

Smaller than what?

> Did some 1337 haxx0r rot13 all the text for fun?

What?
lucas's avatar
14 years ago
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> Smaller than what?

smaller than the power supply you'd have to use with the second alternative.

i see--the first motherboard is bundled with a power supply, and i'm guessing that the molex on the board is a power output. i thought it was an input or something.
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14 years ago
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Martin
The AT3IONT-I doesn't really have an integrated power supply, but comes with a 90W power brick. (Which is not quite the same thing).

The molex is indeed for output (Looked it up in the manual).

You can do the same with any board using something like picoPSU ... Although it would probably be more expensive.


> > Did some 1337 haxx0r rot13 all the text for fun?
>
> What?

It Norwegian ... Never mind, lame joke
bluet's avatar
14 years ago
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bluet
I think I'll go with this:

Asus AT3IONT-I Deluxe
Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 CL9 4 GB ( 2x2 GB )
Intel X25-V 40 GB

And I'll put it in something like the "M350 Universal Mini-ITX enclosure":

http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure

For now I'll just put it all in a drawer, but I want to fix it to the back of my monitor.
bluet's avatar
14 years ago
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bluet
Screw it. I'll just get an SSD to make my laptop completely silent, and an enclosure for the HDD that's in it now.
lucas's avatar
14 years ago
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aw
bluet's avatar
14 years ago
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bluet
The monitor was blocking my window, can't have that.
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13 years ago
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bluet
I got a 64 GB Crucial "RealSSD" C300 today. I finally have a completely silent computer! :D
lucas's avatar
13 years ago
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lucas
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cool! did it just go in your laptop? what about the fan?
bluet's avatar
13 years ago
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bluet
Just in the x60s. I've set the fan to only turn on when the temperature is above 80 C, which rarely happens.
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13 years ago
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Was the disk very loud?
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13 years ago
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Martin
Disks also vibrate, you can feel it on the palmrest. That was my #1 reason for getting a ssd.
bluet's avatar
13 years ago
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I would notice that the machine was on when I was in the same room. Vibration was never a problem, but the noise made it hard to concentrate at times.
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13 years ago
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Martin
> but the noise made it hard to concentrate at times.

Can you please explain this to my coworkers? Thanks.
phi_'s avatar
13 years ago
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phi_
... and let the Earth be silent after ye.
Europeans complain about the weirdest things, I've just realized.
nny's avatar
13 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
Europeans are total fucking nutters.
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13 years ago
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Martin
I believe I can speak safely for a large part of Europe when I say that that the feeling is mutual.
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13 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
Yeah well, at least we're not australia.
phi_'s avatar
13 years ago
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phi_
... and let the Earth be silent after ye.
Well, we can all agree on that.
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13 years ago
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Martin
True ... True ...
asemisldkfj's avatar
13 years ago
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asemisldkfj
the law is no protection
what's wrong with australia?!
Étrangère's avatar
13 years ago
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Étrangère
I am not a robot...
I was going to ask the same thing...it sounds awesome over there, for several reasons!