Mini ATX.... Mini ITX.... Pico PSU

[W1nTry]

I am sure I posted this before but ah well here we go again:

Ultra tiny PC revolution arrives

The rise of mini power supplys...

By Theo Valich: Monday 30 January 2006, 08:03
IF YOU'RE looking for a way to build an ideal small-sized HTPC machine, one of the biggest obstacles was how to get the power safely to the computer which usually is very compact in size (VIA EPIA and similar pico motherboards rule the roost) and not putting the ol' heavy weight champion of Power Supply Units. After some shy prototypes, one of the companies actually begun with production of power supply's so compact in size that you actually need to be veeery careful with the whole installation procedure.



20-pin ATX connector and it's power giving buddy

As you can see on a picture, PicoPSU-120 is an 20-pin PSU that gives an output of 120 Watts. Truth to be told, it works on 12V current only, but the size of the whole power supply is roughly the same as the socket it's being inserted to. In fact, an wall-adapter for the PSU is around 25 times larger than the PSU itself. If you're interested in getting more specs about the product, click on our complementary L'INQ, listed below.

One can only imagine what could the manufacturer produce on a 24-pin EPS12V socket. What's next? Pico-sized CPU sockets (die and couple of pins)? µ

[Beomagi]

ITX systems could be fun. One board that interested me was the Commell LV-673 which is a pentium-m/celeron-m board, packing ddr-2 and pci-e. That psu can probably push this thing, with an x700.

If these manufacturers really wanted to push the envelope, they'd make a Board that accepted an MXM graphics module