Personal computing discussed
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deruberhanyok wrote:I'm tempted to just make something up.
vargis14 wrote:I am copying and pasting some of this from one of my previous posts where I went on ranting about how there is no standard MXM board design yet after so many years and also how they can fit a CPU like a i7-4720HQ 2.6-3.6ghz 4c/8t badazz CPU along with it's its power circuits/VRM's along with the GPU like a GTX 750ti/860m GPU with 4gb of vram sometimes more along with all its VRM's. Ohh do not forget M2 sata slots, Mini PCIE slots, DP,HDMI and Sata ports USB 3.0. All on a circuit board the size of a mid to high end DESKTOP graphics card! Not only that it performs just as well as a huge desktop and only uses maybe 150watts of power! A truly amazing feat of engineering.
vargis14 wrote:Mark where the capacitors are with a sharpie and only notch the block in the needed areas to save as much aluminum as possible. Every little bit of surface area will help so trying to remove as little as possible is proactive.
deruberhanyok wrote:For instance, the system I have has an i3-4370 in it. If I measured power draw at load (say, running 3dmark) and then figured in the efficiency of the power brick for the PicoPSU, I might get a fairly accurate idea what the system is using. But if I then added a video card and measured it, it would be different: adding the power used by the add-in video card, but subtracting whatever the onboard GPU used. It might not be much, but I don't know how that would affect the accuracy of the reading.
Do you think that would be sufficient, or do you need something even more accurate?