Help with power supply

mpilchfamily

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No! The fact that you'll be using a video card and not onboard video rules that PSU out. That setup is better used on a Mini-ITX board anyway. 120W just isn't enough to evn run just the CPU and RAM in your setup. You'll need a good 450+W PSU.

Also it would help if you priovide what items you have reather then just links. We don't want to click threw 8 differnt links just to see what your getting. Just list the items and be done with it.
 

ther00kie16

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Naw, it's a dual core so assuming he doesn't overclock it like crazy, the total draw on 12V rail would be <20A so a nice 300w psu would do.
However, why are you adding dedicated video to that setup? That AIW is so cost-inefficient and drivers could be prolematic. Just get a tuner and use onboard video.
If you want to try it, 150w might get you by. Although I'd still recommend a USB tuner and perhaps a cheap, low-power 4350 if you want a video card for more displays or something. If you want a more powerful gpu, 4670 may work as Anand's test showed that q9450 + 4670 only drew 139w at load.
 

bulliesrule

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Thank you mpilchfamily, I edited my original post hope that is better.

:| , that was the highest watt PSU I could find that small

The only thing that was higher wattage was this

PW-200-V, 200w output, 12v input DC-DC Power Supply

But it is only 20 pin and the motherboards is 24 pin

I wanted to try and keep this project as small as possible, but know it looks like I will have to go and m-atx case because I will need a normal size PSU
 

bulliesrule

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Thank you her00kie16

What I wanted to do was make a little HTPC (I would eventually upgrade the DVD writer to a Blu-Ray drive once prices come down) that I could put in the living room.

No overclocking, no gameing (have the PS3 and 360 for that in the game room) just something for the wife to watch and burn movies, do the pictures with friends and family, record TV shows when out, and some basic internet surfing.

That is why I was going to go with a AIW. The sysem was going to be plugged into a Sony 37" LCD TV using HDMI, so I thought it would need a dedicated video card.

Would the onboard video be able to handle it?

Because if the onboard video can handle everything, I will not need the AIW and riser
 

mpilchfamily

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To reduce your power needs drop the video card. While the card doesn't need aditional power from a PCI-e power connector it will be requiring the full 6A that is availible threw the PCI-e slot itself. Meaning the overall powerr the motherboard will need will be highern then sticking with the onboard video.

Any reason your using the riser card?
 

ther00kie16

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The onboard should work just fine for HD. After all, it has HDMI on it. By using onboard, you should drop the power needed to around 100w. So the 102w one may work. But to be safe, you'll want at least 120w.
Also, you do realize that the 200w you linked doesn't actually include the power brick right? You'll need to find a power brick that will output 120+W for those picopsu boards to work. There aren't many bricks that will do >100w out there but here're some. So it'd cost $87 without shipping for the brick and picopsu board.
 

bulliesrule

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Thanks again.

I was planning on tryin to creat my own case because I have not seen anything that I like. Do not get me wrong there a some really nice cases but I wanted to try and keep this small to keep the wife happy.

The riser was so that I could try to come up with something like picture 4 and 5.

The riser card had a ribbbon on it so that it it connect in the X16 slot and wrap under to the video card

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So I will go with this for the power setup:

picoPSU-150-XT 150W PSU

12.5A 150W AC-DC adapter