150-XT picopsu adapter alternative

[yetidaddy]

Will this work together?
ac adapter
mini-din adapter
150w picopsu

In case you're wondering, I'm building a E8400 gaming or i3 core for LAN.
Intel E8400
Biostar MATX M7
2gb Viper DDR2-800
160GB sata 2.5
ATI 4550
or

i3 core 530
ECS-I mini-itx
2GB DDR3 1333
160GB sata 2.5
ATI 4550

 

[lsv]

150w might not be enough for that at full load...

But I don't see why those wouldn't work together.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Sure looks like it.

I'm not sure how much power that 4550 uses compared to a 5870, but if it's similar, then you should be fine, especially with the i3. See the very last chart here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2921/2

They also make 160w PicoPSUs now if you want a tiny bit more headroom.

 

[kalrith]

Will you use an optical drive? I think that system will be fine with no overclocking and no optical drive. Either of those might push it over 150W.

 

[Zap]

If you don't think it enough, the new Pico PSU 160XT is available. Hey, 10W is 10W!

 

[frostedflakes]

4550 is pretty frugal, Xbitlabs measured 18.5w while running 3DMark06. Also keep in mind they measure DC power consumption (through the PCI-E slot and external power connector(s) if applicable), so this should be pretty accurate. 3DMark06 isn't as demanding as stress test utilities like Furmark, if you were to run that the power consumption would probably jump to 25w or so. But it's a good representation of the kind of load actual games will put on the card, so while gaming you can expect it to use that much power.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-radeon-hd4550_4.html

With a bit of Googling I'm sure you can find sites that have measured power consumption of those CPUs to get an idea of how much they use. Same for most of the other components (motherboard might be hard to figure out, you can probably assume 20w or so for that as a worst-case scenario, but it should be relatively easy to find typical power consumption for a 2.5" disk, a stick or two of RAM, etc.).

Also, you can run a surprising amount off a PicoPSU if you're careful about the components you select. This SPCR user is running an Athlon II X4 605e (45w quad core) and HD5750 (keep in mind this is the fanless PowerColor version, which I believe has an undervolted GPU to reduce power consumption and heat -- don't assume any 5750 will work). A pretty potent gaming system for how little power it uses.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57219