We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us - Winston Churchill
LOW POWER computers aren't a thing of the past, if you consider the mega roundup Anandtech has of 20 300W to 450W power supplies. Shocking stuff.
Chile Hardware has a SunbeamTech eSATA HDD (Googlenglish). ‘Bout time we dumped USB 2.0 in favour of something a bit more powerful.
Inside HW is moving forward into Kuma land. There's a review of the Athlon X2 7750 there.
Overclockers Club has a review of a Mushkin tri-channel kit, the HP3 12800 3x2GB. Prices are comin' down... this one's just $190.
PC Perps has updates its hardware leaderboard with $3500, $1950, $880 and $530 rigs. Find out how long your buck stretches.
The Scythe Musashi is on review at Legion Hardware. Bleedin' edge stuff, it seems.
Cooling VGAs is just as hard as cooling a quad-core CPU. Bjorn3D tries out the SilenX IXG-80HA2 and IXG-3F2 VGA heastink + fans.
Phoronix is testing out SSD drive performance under Ubuntu Linux. Mixed results with the SSD competing nose-to-nose with an HDD.
Think Computers has an Icy Dock 3.5-inch/2.5-inch eSATA/USB docking station. Looks like an Ipod station, actually.
TweakPC in Germany is testing an AXP MTR001B Fan control panel (Googlenglish). This device routes all the fans in your system to a 5.25-inch bay and reads out all the fan speeds and temps.
Still in Deutschland, Technic 3D is reviewing the Topower Silent EZ 350W PSU (Googlenglish). It's modular, it's silent and it's well priced, says Rolf.
Yet another German review, from Epiacenter. The Jetway NC91-230-LF mobo is an Atom mini-ITX unit. Anyone up for a DIY project?
The Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600W PSU specialises in quiet computing and power efficiency. It's over at OCIA.
Digit Life is looking on at the mid-range motherboard market segment. Mid-range has been re-defined, it seems, as some features move on down the pecking order and populate cheaper mobos. Find out their take on the matter.
His Highness Mr Mike Magee is back in the review business, it seems. He's testing a Supermicro X8SAX mobo and he's got a feeling it's a winner.
Yeah... just 15 articles. Today was kinda slow, we know. µ
Considering that a 450W PSU is enough for just about any reasonable PC, whether low-power computers are a thing of the past or whether they aren't is a moot point.
Remember that PSUs are terribly inefficient below 20% load, meaning that a 650W PSU is a terrible match for a computer drawing 90W when idle, because it will be at 14% load. And modern computers have various power-saving features and draw very little power when idle.