SuitCase PC. :/

[c_hegge]

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This one is only about 9 months old. It should be fine until I find a better one. Also, I'm not of the opinion that all cheap PSUs are motherboard killers. I have used several, including a few codegens, and they have been fine. In fact, I've seen more motherboards taken out by Antecs than any other brand.

[ratdude747]

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gutless wonders take out hard drives. an allied killed one in a computer i bought secondhand once.

[370forlife]

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This one is only about 9 months old. It should be fine until I find a better one. Also, I'm not of the opinion that all cheap PSUs are motherboard killers. I have used several, including a few codegens, and they have been fine. In fact, I've seen more motherboards taken out by Antecs than any other brand.

Ehhh, just be weary of it. Without an Oscilloscope you can't tell how much ripple it is treating your board with. There are plenty of cheapies out there that pump out 200mv of ripple at idle. *cough*linkworld*cough*

[c_hegge]

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gutless wonders take out hard drives. an allied killed one in a computer i bought secondhand once.

I hardly see them take HDDs out either

Got some good news, though. I scored myself an Antec Earthwatts 380W PSU which is short enough to fit. Opened it up and, no fuhjyyu. The caps are all OST. It's an improvment, but I'm still going to re-cap it.

[370forlife]

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It's a low end FSP build then. Don't know if the brand new ones are delta yet.

[c_hegge]

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It's a low end FSP build then. Don't know if the brand new ones are delta yet.

No, I believe it's Seasonic made. IIRC Basiq are the only series made by FSP.

[370forlife]

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Whoops, was thinking of the basiq. I saw 380W and immediately thought of basiq.

[c_hegge]

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Almost done. Just need some DDR2 RAM. I got a 15 inch monitor and have mounted it into the briefcase. It sticks out a bit but it works. I borrowed some RAM (512MB) from another PC temporarily. I've installed Ubuntu Linux 9.10 on it and it's powering this post. will get some pics soon.

[Phaihn]

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Almost done. Just need some DDR2 RAM. I got a 15 inch monitor and have mounted it into the briefcase. It sticks out a bit but it works. I borrowed some RAM (512MB) from another PC temporarily. I've installed Ubuntu Linux 9.10 on it and it's powering this post. will get some pics soon.

sweet.

[c_hegge]

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Quick update. Got a 1GB DDR2 RAM Module and a 160GB WD Hard drive for it. I've also ordered a small keyboard.

[c_hegge]

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Got a picture of it now. Currently, specs are:
Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2L motherboard
Athlon X2 3200+
1GB DDR2 RAM
160GB WD HDD
Lite-on CD Burner (Still thinking about upgrading this)
380W Antec Earthwatts PSU (Partially re-capped with Panny FM and FJ)
Samsung 151S Monitor
Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 (64 bit)

[momaka]

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Looks like something you would see in an old sci-fi movie .
It's still cool, though.

[c_hegge]

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It's completed now and is powering this post!! Here are the pics.

It's definitely not an ultraportable notebook. It's much bigger and heavier than I had originally hoped for (one advantage of using a gutless wonder PSU!) and, obviously, there is no battery. The main advantage this will have is that it will be much easier to fix should something go wrong. I spent about half an hour today trying to figure out how to take a Toshiba satellite apart without destroying it just so I could clean the dust out of the CPU cooler.

[kikkoman]

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you better not take this to an airport.....

[Phaihn]

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It's completed now and is powering this post!! Here are the pics.

It's definitely not an ultraportable notebook. It's much bigger and heavier than I had originally hoped for (one advantage of using a gutless wonder PSU!) and, obviously, there is no battery. The main advantage this will have is that it will be much easier to fix should something go wrong. I spent about half an hour today trying to figure out how to take a Toshiba satellite apart without destroying it just so I could clean the dust out of the CPU cooler.

pretty nice.
looks good.

[c_hegge]

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you better not take this to an airport.....

That's what dad says. He reckons they might think it's a bomb.

[ratdude747]

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nice!

[c_hegge]

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Just got a DVD Burner for it. That will be the last upgrade for the time being. I absolutely love this thing. From power on to desktop takes less time than my ADSL Modem takes to connect!!

[c_hegge]

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I've added a PCI wireless card to it. I modded the card so that, rather than having the antenna stick out the back, it is enclosed near the monitor. I did it by attaching the antenna socket to the card using wires. I'm using the briefcase PC and the modded wireless card to power this post.

One interesting thing though (and this is NOT caused by my mod, since it was happening before I modded it) is that I only get 1 bar signal strength, even when I am only 2 or 3 feet away from the router.

[c_hegge]

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Sorry to dig up an ageing thread, but I built another one. Specs are:

This motherboard
Athlon 64 X2 4400+
1GB RAM
80GB 2.5" HDD
2nd Hand DVD RW salvaged from a compaq laptop
This PSU
NEC AccuSync 52v Monitor
XP home edition

Here are some pics with the original one on the left