Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:57:47 -0700 From: David King <dking@ketralnis.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quiet computer Message-ID: <3ABF536B-F199-47B9-8B10-EF5A0644BC62@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <200610052145.54292.soralx@cydem.org> References: <3692C07B-CCCC-4756-9B33-6DA724481FF2@ketralnis.com> <200610041939.35376.soralx@cydem.org> <0431EB40-6AF8-49A6-9F87-0B707B1DDC94@ketralnis.com> <200610052145.54292.soralx@cydem.org>
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>>> You might wants to consider using a low-power 'brick'-type AC->DC >>> PSU (~90W?) and a DC-DC voltage converter that plugs directly into >>> a mainboard's power connector. This will be quite noiseless. >> Do you have any recommendations? Ideally it would mount on the case >> (<http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/products_id/134>) like >> the current power supply does but I'm open to other options > something like this (random example): > http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/products_id/596 The only types of power supplies with which I'm familiar are the ones that typically ship with most cases, so I'm a little confused by this, excuse my obvious ignorance :) What does the DC-DC converter do, if the AC-DC converter supplies DC power? What would be an example of this AC-DC converter? Could it power two 3.5" hard drives in addition to the motherboard? How does it differ from a regular power supply?
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