Recent content by LegionDD

Looking fine, just that you could run far thinner wire for the 3.3V and 5V lines. Not much power will ever be drawn from them, especially if you're doing a run to an SSD or even HDD. I usually don't use more than 0.15mm wire for SSDs for example. Ofc, if you ever wanted to run only 12V wires...

If 300W is the peak power draw, yes. Considering I supplied a 3770K + GTX Titan with just two 2.5mm wires @1m length, I'd say you'll be fine supplying the GPU with one 2.75mm wire. Just remember, if you run into instability with the GPU, the peak power draw might be too high and you need to add...

A standard SFX PSU is 100mm x 125mm x 63mm The Problem is more that standard GPUs are too large (even that tiny 1650) to fit inside a standard SFX PSU. But MXM cards (they have to fit inside laptops after all) are much smaller with a more compact connector (especially on the mainboard side)...

I wasn't aware of that contest yet. I'll give it a go and see where I end up.

True, but so is hardline water tubing. The appeal is in the potential for a clean and exceptionally tidy interior look. The more wires you have, the messier it looks, doubly so when wires are of the usual soft and jiggly type. Imho when it comes to SFF, less is more (less wires = the more you...

Well, about 1. You can use an online calculator (easy to google) to get the resistance of your wire, then you can use Ohms law to calculate the voltage drop (or google another calculator for that). Try this one for example 2. The point was you don't need a picoPSU with much wattage. All the...

Only if I leave out the GPU. Sadly I need 12V and 19V. The HDPlex delivers 19V, so I'd need a step down DC-DC to supply power to the GPU@12V. But this gave me the idea to add current monitoring to the controller, so I can see how much power that system actually needs and then look for an...

You're saying that as a joke, but I'm already doing research to see if there's any kind of x86 gaming capable hardware (preferably a dedicated GPU - using the UDOO Bolt with its Ryzen1000 and Vega8 iGPU is sort of cheating) that I could fit inside a SFX PSU ;)

Thank you, I think. Yes, the AC-DC PSU is 21.5 cm x 7 cm x 4.5 cm.

Hello everyone, I have just finished my most compact build yet and am convinced there's no better place to get some feedback on it than here. My build fits a gaming PC (7th Gen. Intel + 1050 Ti) inside the husk of a dead, standard ATX PSU (outside volume of just 2.16L). Admittedly I have been...

I've used numerous PicoPSUs to do exactly that. I usually pair them with an inexpensive, passively cooled 12V PSU. The PicoPSU unit will take those 12V and generate all the other voltages a mainboard needs. Wherever you need 12V you can just pass along the line from the 12V PSU (no need to run...

Yes it is possible. The exact thickness for your wire depends on the current it has to pass (calculate voltage drop for a specific length of wire to see if it remains within specs at the expected power draw). I've personally ditched the regular PSU for some of my builds by using just a 12V PSU +...