Cheap and effective, you can get them from online retailers like mini-ITX or eBay. They are great for such small builds and work fairly well. A Pico PSU is a special PSU that makes use of a power brick to keep its size extremely small. Obviously, you can't use a standard ATX power supply. Powering this little beast can be tricky due to the space limitations. For storage I was lucky to get this 240gb PNY SSD extremely cheaply off NewEgg.
The Arctic is extremely quite and probably a bit overkill. I had read the stock cooler can get on the noisy side. I swapped out the stock AM1 cooler for this better form Arctic Cooling. These work great and can be snagged off eBay rather cheaply. I decided on using USB Super Nintendo controllers for the input. It's extremely compact and makes for a awesome little console! The power button and the USB ports share a PCB that spans the width of the case along the very front.
There is a slim 60mm fan on the side for an exhaust. Its a fairly simple case with two USB 2.0 ports on the front. Let alone trying to get the power supply in order for such a small build. You're not going to fit a high-end 125W APU in there without modification of the case. It's just about the exact size of a mini-ITX motherboard. I found the Super Micro case on NewEgg in the server case section. As you can see from this picture, the case I selected for this build is smaller than a Model 2 Sega Genesis. That my friends is a Sonic The Hedgehog Sega Genesis cartridge. So, with that out of the way, let's see just how small and what kind of performance you can expect with such a tiny power envelope. Classic video game consoles are computers and can be essentially simulated via emulation on PCs. For those not in the know, emulation is the action of copying one computer's functions with another. But if they aren't making any money doing it, its not going to happen. We all want to see developers continue to make great games. Just make sure the people that deserve the money for their work get paid. Whether it be a physical copy or a ROM file that was extracted from, say, a Steam version download.
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I don't condone software piracy! Please do yourself a favor and make sure you own any games you plan on playing via emulators. Now before we get into the in's and out's of this build, we have to have a talk since I said the word "Emulation". In this case I am using it to make a small emulation PC. Why do you want such a small build? Well one great use is for a console sized HTPC. They require large power supplies and cooling solutions. Yes, they are powerful, but they also generate lots of heat. High end CPUs and GPUs suck massive amounts of power from your outlet. With such a low draw, you can fit this bad boy into such smaller places. See, the great thing about low end products like this is the much smaller power requirements. But sometimes those high end products don't always fit the bill. Should be here in the US too if you ask me! I feel all the high end products get the most attention in tech. Apparently this thing is a huge seller in the Latin America region.
I mean out of everything is has, this little power house was the one I was interested in. When I first approached AMD about doing a project on this little APU, the company was a bit surprised. Remember when AMD stuck the first GPU onto a CPU die when it introduced Llano? To think it was only a few years back and now we have the same thing, but using so much less power. It amazes me to think that's even possible.
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It's a full quad core CPU and a GPU all in one. Today I am writing this story to shed some light on a processor that is rated at 25W - AMD's Athlon 5350 APU. What took hundreds of watts to achieve years ago, can now be done with a fraction of the power.
With smaller and smaller manufacturing techniques, power efficiency will continue to increase. As technology advances, and power requirements continue to shrink, more and more can be done with less. 25 watts can do a lot of things these days. You can get a pair of speakers that put out twice as much sound as a 25W speaker could only years ago. Today, you can get LED light bulbs that put out about the same amount of light as a 60W or 70W bulb. What can you do with 25 watts? Well, let's take a moment to think about it.
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