[mythtv-users] external power supply rant (Was: Zotac ION M/B..)

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed May 13 19:44:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:12 AM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 11:32 am, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> The real problem of concern is that 'wall-warts' are cheaply built,
>> typically linear, and always low efficiency.  They will be dumping
>> easily twice the waste heat of a traditional computer power supply.
>
> In the sizes we're talking about to power a whole computer -- i.e., >2
> amps at 12 VDC -- I haven't seen a linear wall wart in a long time.  Even
> the little cell phone charger wall warts are mostly switched-mode, now.
>
> Linear power supplies for computers went out of style in the Commodore 64
> days. ;)
>

Well of course those who have read the whole hothardware.com article
will know that there is a version of the board which can plug into an
ATX power supply

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Zotac-NVIDIA-Ion-Motherboard/?page=10

See the table of models. Something to please everyone :)


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