2012-06-03, 02:21
Ah...because of a certain Mr. B and Mr. E here in the forum 
it has been extremely hard to find a ISK300-65 system from a retail/online vendor, I was browsing around for a box to house my 2125 system (it's currently in a ISK100 case, it's tight and can't fit a 3rd party fan), end up picking up a ISK310-150 box from Frys to play with.
my A6-3500+asrock A75M-itx system in the ISK310 case (does eskro see my ocz?
If you see from the pic the connector from the power source sticks out and actually interferes with 3rd party heat sink, I end up putting back the amd cooler for my a6-3500 system for testing. The PS fan when spinning low is ok noise-wise but when spin up does produce some amount of noise. Because of these 2 issues I'll probably get a pico PS and swap out the stock PS for the 310 case.
If you've read some of my posts in beer's A6-pack thread, here, you can see the shuriken rev B. with the asrock A75M mb fits perfectly in the ISK300 case even with the drive cage installed.
Unfortunately for the h67m motherboard the cpu socket is off to the left and a little more in front, so the cage won't fit any more
, anyway removing it probably gives better airflow.
Here's my i3 2125+asrock h67m system in a ISK300-65 case, using a 90W power brick.
I measured the power usage using kill-a-watt for the same system using the pico power brick and the ISK310-150 PS, you can see significant difference.
Can't beat the pico systems!
here's close up of the 2125 system (hitting image limit!)
it has been extremely hard to find a ISK300-65 system from a retail/online vendor, I was browsing around for a box to house my 2125 system (it's currently in a ISK100 case, it's tight and can't fit a 3rd party fan), end up picking up a ISK310-150 box from Frys to play with.my A6-3500+asrock A75M-itx system in the ISK310 case (does eskro see my ocz?
If you see from the pic the connector from the power source sticks out and actually interferes with 3rd party heat sink, I end up putting back the amd cooler for my a6-3500 system for testing. The PS fan when spinning low is ok noise-wise but when spin up does produce some amount of noise. Because of these 2 issues I'll probably get a pico PS and swap out the stock PS for the 310 case.
If you've read some of my posts in beer's A6-pack thread, here, you can see the shuriken rev B. with the asrock A75M mb fits perfectly in the ISK300 case even with the drive cage installed.
Unfortunately for the h67m motherboard the cpu socket is off to the left and a little more in front, so the cage won't fit any more
, anyway removing it probably gives better airflow.Here's my i3 2125+asrock h67m system in a ISK300-65 case, using a 90W power brick.
I measured the power usage using kill-a-watt for the same system using the pico power brick and the ISK310-150 PS, you can see significant difference.
Code:
A6-3500 A6-3500 i3 2125 i3 2125
300-90W 310-150 ps 300-90W 310-150
max power spike 67W 78W 50-51W 64W
from boot to xbmcbuntu
idling in info screen 34W (2100) ~41W 34-35 48W (3300)
29W (800) 47W (1600)
playing a certain 720 34-35 (spike 40-41) 47-49 (spike 54-57) 35 (spike 40) 46-47 (spike 53)
rmvb
playing a ripped blueray 29-30 43-44 38 53-54
mkv
playing a 1080 TS file 36 49-50 35-36 48-49Can't beat the pico systems!
here's close up of the 2125 system (hitting image limit!)
