Well in my rig right now, the 200W psu is hugely bottlenecking me.
Everything else is out of the picture. This sucker can get so hot to the touch. I only noticed it was a problem when I was overclocking one day and at 1.875v the system died (with load temps all around in 20s/30s) and the psu was burning hot and I started to notice it stunk.
Well, without further explaining of other issues and crappyness from it, I need to get rid of this thing and get a new psu.
the pc40, or the silentX 250w psu is the easiest option, yet it would be nice to have more headroom.
There is a lot of free volume in my shuttle, with no optical, and only needing one or two hard drives.
Here is how I have them now:
And I did this before when I was only using one of them:
Now, I'd still prefer an internal solution. There is a lot of room in this shuttle. If it werent for the height of the ICE, or if I'd rather some other cooling solution, I would surely go for some 1u case, or come up with a very slim/small solution.
So, the possibilities. There are 1u,2u psus. But starting with the 1u, they cant be mounted in the same spot as the current psu without extending down into the caps/mosfet area. Solution could be to cut out the top frame accordingly to make clearance and mount it somehow.
They vary in size alot though, and thus specs. Is there any place that has various server psus (quality), other than say ebay where I've been looking (not newegg or unavail to canada), or know of any with good dimensions?
Another possiblity, is having a psu mounted in some other place, ie, in the top of the shuttle, or in the drive cage area, replacing the hdds towards the old psu place in this case.
There are surely all other kinds of slim etc psus of different shapes, maby there could be one of these that if small enough I could use for devices etc with the current psu for mobo/cpu only (if its reliable)
Ummmm, give me ideas.
1u/2u psu in 5.25 "area" w fan dumping into ICE, or little custom 40x40 duct out the case, and its intake fan drawing fresh air ducted from side or something.
Everything else is out of the picture. This sucker can get so hot to the touch. I only noticed it was a problem when I was overclocking one day and at 1.875v the system died (with load temps all around in 20s/30s) and the psu was burning hot and I started to notice it stunk.
Well, without further explaining of other issues and crappyness from it, I need to get rid of this thing and get a new psu.
the pc40, or the silentX 250w psu is the easiest option, yet it would be nice to have more headroom.
There is a lot of free volume in my shuttle, with no optical, and only needing one or two hard drives.
Here is how I have them now:
And I did this before when I was only using one of them:
Now, I'd still prefer an internal solution. There is a lot of room in this shuttle. If it werent for the height of the ICE, or if I'd rather some other cooling solution, I would surely go for some 1u case, or come up with a very slim/small solution.
So, the possibilities. There are 1u,2u psus. But starting with the 1u, they cant be mounted in the same spot as the current psu without extending down into the caps/mosfet area. Solution could be to cut out the top frame accordingly to make clearance and mount it somehow.
They vary in size alot though, and thus specs. Is there any place that has various server psus (quality), other than say ebay where I've been looking (not newegg or unavail to canada), or know of any with good dimensions?
Another possiblity, is having a psu mounted in some other place, ie, in the top of the shuttle, or in the drive cage area, replacing the hdds towards the old psu place in this case.
There are surely all other kinds of slim etc psus of different shapes, maby there could be one of these that if small enough I could use for devices etc with the current psu for mobo/cpu only (if its reliable)
Ummmm, give me ideas.
1u/2u psu in 5.25 "area" w fan dumping into ICE, or little custom 40x40 duct out the case, and its intake fan drawing fresh air ducted from side or something.