I have been thinking and eying a few new pc parts for a long time. I would really like to build two new frontends that are much more power efficient. I am hoping I will see a huge difference in my monthly power bill. Over the weekend I purchased a few parts in my long list of items I want to get eventually. First was a new power supply. Since the new floors have been put in, the myth frontend that is in the bedroom seems very noisy. Normally I would just replace the problem part. Well in this case, I decided to try a new power supply instead of trying to replace a fan in the special power supply in the case. I have always wanted picoPSU. Well I will have one later this week. This power supply is pretty amazing. Very efficient and very small. I hope it does everything I need it to. From what I can tell, this power supply should work perfectly for any of my energy efficient amd based frontend motherboard and cpu’s. If it does not, then I will just have to move forward with the last part of my list. The second item I got is a new M350 Mini-ITX case. This case is very small. So small, I got screws so you can mount it to the back of a flat panel display. The last item ( I have not purchased) yet is an atom based motherboard. Right now I am looking at a ZOTAC IONITX-C-U Intel Atom N230 Mini ITX ION. That should be just plenty. I had looked at the dual core version, but from what I have read, it is not needed when using vdpau.
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