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Those pico psu thingies can actually save a bunch of power in homeservers. Psus are super inefficient at really low load and atx stuff is usually at least 400w nowadays
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@twinspin6 where do you get a non-switching psu for pcs?
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@snacks At low load, the efficiency of decent SMPS's doesn't really matter.
Pico-style PSUs only really have efficiency gains if you have a bunch of computers - rather than AC-DC conversion for each computer, you can have a single 12V supply, which is easy to also battery backup.
Pico-style PSUs only really have efficiency gains if you have a bunch of computers - rather than AC-DC conversion for each computer, you can have a single 12V supply, which is easy to also battery backup.
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@Suiseiseki it cut my power consumption by over 10% while being cheaper
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can approve, my picu psu is great, it powers the most cursed systems i build
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@snacks What about the power quality?
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@Suiseiseki the server runs for months without issues, so apparently good enough
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