At last temperatures under control and total silence !!!!
September 7, 2010 18 Comments
Hi there,
My fan arrived last week, haven’t got the time yet to mount it into the case until today!
Here you can checkout the fan, it’s a Scythe 120 mm Slip Stream Slim Case Fan (800 rpm) (SY1212SL12SL).
Cost’s around 9EUR and believe me it is completely silent.
So how do you fit a 120mm fan in a case that’s only 70mm high?
You install it on the top cover, the one that you open the case with.
You just need to make sure the fan’s power cable is long enough to be stretched out when you open the case.
Check out the result:
Running PCMark Vantage the highest temperatures reached 61°C and 57°C for the CPU and GPU respectively.
A very healthy result comparing to the passive setup where the CPU temperatures reached over 100°C…
Now at last I am able to enjoy my completely silent HTPC!
“You just need to make sure the fan’s power cable is long enough”
it’s look like that you inverted the mounting of the fan
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Congrats, so do you have a list of all the components you used ?
Hey,
ik heb een paar vragen.
Kan je mij zeggen of je cpu/gpu veel minder warm werden na je picoPSU installatie? Mijn kast heeft een 300w voeding en die maakt bijna geen geluid. Mijn cpu is rond de 75graden tijdens bekijken van 1080p mkv.
Ik heb nog een paar vragen weet niet of jij daar een antwoord op hebt. Ik heb xmbc op windows 7 gezet maar films spelen niet goed af. Heel erg traag, terwijl dit met mpc niet zo is. Ook heb ik een probleem met flash op websites. Als ik flash filmpjes op fullscreen zet dan loopt die erg traag, heb jij hier ook last van?
Alvast bedankt
English:
Hey,
I have a few questions.
Can you tell me if your cpu / gpu were much cooler after you install picoPSU? My closet has a 300W power supply, which makes almost no noise. My cpu is around 75graden while viewing 1080p mkv.
I have a few questions if you do not know an answer to it. I’ve put xmbc on Windows 7, but movies do not play well. Very slow, compared with mpc not. I also have a problem with flash websites. If I flash movies in fullscreen put that runs slow, do you also suffer from?
Neen bij mij werd mijn cpu enkel warmer omdat de fan van de PSU toch voor wat ventilatie zorgde…
Ik heb dat probleem onder Windows 7 ook. In het begin heb ik probleemloos een Blu Ray onder Win7 kunnen afspelen. Sinds kort laggen al mijn films onder Windows 7.
Niet dat ik me daaraan erger vermits ik alles met XBMC Live afspeel.
Weet jij of er drivers voor Ubuntu zijn? Kan dat nergens vinden. Vind windows7 helemaal niet lekker werken met een htpc.
Als het om een HTPC gaat dan raad ik je XBMC Live aan. Beter bestaat niet.
Maar dat is toch ook een soort OS? heeft dat geen drivers etc nodig om alles uit je hardware te halen?
Hi!
Awesome blog! I’m going to build a HTPC with the same motherboard, so it’s really helpful!
To the case and heat issue: Antec isk 300-65 comes with a powerbrick, ant has great ventillation.
Hi TripKip
Thank you for your nice blog
I was wondering if you could test your new Asus AT5IONT-I board with qvdpautest and post the results? It would really be nice to know the VDPAU decoding performance of this board, to compare it to older ION boards. Thanks in advance… 
Hi Kenni,
Thank you.
About the VDPAU decoding performance test, I’ll see what I can do
Sorry dude,
I’ve been trying to get it compiled since I read your comment. Didn’t work.
If you’re able to compile it on xbmc live dharma so I can just run it I could do it..
Greets
Great blog. I just built a box with the same board. No heat problems but in larger enclosure than yours. Temps are around 54~60C.
Here’s the results from qvdpautest run on Arch Linux x86_64 with a 2.6.35 kernel:
qvdpautest 0.5.1
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
NVIDIA GPU ION (GT218) at PCI:3:0:0 (GPU-0)
VDPAU API version : 1
VDPAU implementation : NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 256.53 Fri Aug 27 20:54:24 PDT 2010
SURFACE GET BITS: 194.201 M/s
SURFACE PUT BITS: 162.158 M/s
MPEG DECODING (1920×1080): 72 frames/s
MPEG DECODING (1280×720): 162 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1920×1080): 66 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1280×720): 137 frames/s
VC1 DECODING (1440×1080): 83 frames/s
MIXER WEAVE (1920×1080): 486 frames/s
MIXER BOB (1920×1080): 675 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL (1920×1080): 191 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + IVTC (1920×1080): 122 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920×1080): 255 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (1920×1080): 65 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + IVTC (1920×1080): 53 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920×1080): 72 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (720×576 video to 1920×1080 display): 212 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + HQSCALING (720×576 video to 1920×1080 display): 117 fields/s
MULTITHREADED MPEG DECODING (1920×1080): 69 frames/s
MULTITHREADED MIXER TEMPORAL (1920×1080): 156 fields/s
Cheers
Hi,
ich just found your blog while browsing the xbmc forums – nice one, this is the kind of information i was looking for. Your setup equals mostly my ideas. One thing which i consider as important is the power consumption of the whole system. Would it be possible to test the consumption meanwhile the system is in idle mode and as well test it while it is playing 1080p.
This would be very helpfull for me
Im glad you like my blog. I dont have the resources to test the power consumption.
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Maybe the measurement device is available for free. My local electricity provider for example is giving away these devices for free, for about two weeks. They work really easy.
Hi
Great blog!
I have a similar setup to yours and I have added a fan but would like to control the fan speed but can’t seem to find it in the bios… Do You use that?
Best regards
Kasper
Hi, no I dont control the fan speed.
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