Tweaker ‘mux’ has a fully functioning computer in a board to be processed. The computer, which mux Plank2 baptized, moreover, is completely silent, passively cooled, and very economical, due to strong modification from the system board.
The pc was placed in an old pine desktop of 1.45 meters by 55 inches with a thickness of 2.8 inches, describes mux on are Tweakblog. Mux – alias Emile Nijssen – was about three quarters of a day working on the milling of the recesses for the components in your computer. The Plank2 is the second computer that mux in a shelf has to know to grasp; the new one is a lot better and more impressive, in the opinion of the mud itself.
In the shelf, which still needs to be painted, there is a computer that is built around a H81M-P33 motherboard from MSI, which, however, greatly changed. Because We the ‘kastcomputer’ very quiet and economical, wanted to get, is the MSI motherboard quite a gemod. “Everything that I don’t necessarily need had is gone demolished,” writes Nijssen. So were more than two memory slots is not necessary and also the onboard-audio-chip got the brunt of it. Thus knew Nijssen consumption of the computer – in addition to the MSI motherboard with a Celeron G1820-cpu – lot to bring back.
By the cpu to modden knew Nijssen consumption of the entire computer to bring back to 5.5 watts under normal use and 3.9 watts in a standstill. Including the picoprojector that mux is used to picture on the wall to show it pulls the computer to 9.6 watts, but under maximum load can be up to 32 watts.
The Plank2 is also very quiet. Nijssen has achieved that by no fans, but passive cooling. The heat is spread on an aluminum overgangsstrip; We used a flat heat pipe to the heat from the cpu to that strip. That is successful, says Nijssen: two evenings of normal use, the temperature of the cpu is not above 50 degrees. When stress testing remained the temperature is stuck at 85 degrees.
Further, the Plank2, with homemade amplifiers; the audio is controlled by an amplifier module that mux has created itself. The mud has been chosen because of onboard audio chips suffer from interference. The volume can be controlled with two volume control buttons that the mud also itself has designed.