[Beer40oz]

Yeah I was debating about your build but opted out because I don't like bricks (beaut of a setup though). Not sure why I thought 250w wouldn't be good enough, especially with all these pico builds.

One thing you do get with a brick setup is a fanless power supply. That's one reason I like them. Also, with these low power setups, they're the most efficient power supplies you can get. No one seems interested in making a 120W ATX PSU.

Defanitly all great reasons to go with a brick style setup. I just hate the one the comes with my Xbox

I don't get it? why? The brick is behind my furniture.... I actually have 3 bricks back there. No problems what so ever...
and for the Pico's they are small....

[hoihoi]

One thing you do get with a brick setup is a fanless power supply. That's one reason I like them. Also, with these low power setups, they're the most efficient power supplies you can get. No one seems interested in making a 120W ATX PSU.

Defanitly all great reasons to go with a brick style setup. I just hate the one the comes with my Xbox

I don't get it? why? The brick is behind my furniture.... I actually have 3 bricks back there. No problems what so ever...
and for the Pico's they are small....

Lol, I really don't know. It's just one of those things. I might reconsider because I like your build alot.

Edit: I don't look at them as 'a problem'..

[DavidT99]

One thing you do get with a brick setup is a fanless power supply. That's one reason I like them. Also, with these low power setups, they're the most efficient power supplies you can get. No one seems interested in making a 120W ATX PSU.

Defanitly all great reasons to go with a brick style setup. I just hate the one the comes with my Xbox

I don't get it? why? The brick is behind my furniture.... I actually have 3 bricks back there. No problems what so ever...
and for the Pico's they are small....

I'm guessing you haven't seen the size of the power brick for an Xbox, its a third the size of the Xbox and not that easy to hide.

David

[hoihoi]

4GB of Kingston ValueRAM DDR3-1333 is all you need.

If you went mini-ITX you could get the Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 and put it in the Apex MI-008 and save some money.

The ram is no big deal, i didn't know that case came with a PSU. 250w seems a little low but if i'm not running a dedicated video card or extra HDD i should be OK.

250w PSU is plenty of power for most discrete GPU. I had Apex MI-008 case, and it handled my extra hard drive, Nvidia GT430 and 3 USB drives with ease.....

+1 for what bluray says. I even had that same 250W SFX PSU running my home server for a while (6 SATA drives, etc.)

For the A6-3500/A75/4GB/64GB SSD mini-itx machines I usually run with a 120W PSU. There's other threads in here with people using 90W picoPSUs. You'll be fine.

Defanitly all great reasons to go with a brick style setup. I just hate the one the comes with my Xbox

I don't get it? why? The brick is behind my furniture.... I actually have 3 bricks back there. No problems what so ever...
and for the Pico's they are small....

I'm guessing you haven't seen the size of the power brick for an Xbox, its a third the size of the Xbox and not that easy to hide.

David

No i haven't seen it in person, just the power brick idea I don't like.. Although, if it is that small, it's given me some second thoughts.

[Dougie Fresh]

My 84W AC brick is 2.5" W x 5.5" L x 1.5" H
My 120W AC brick is 3" W x 6.5" L x 1.75" H