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Many motherboards have 12V or 19V DC input barrels, I think thin-itx requires it. Generally the keyword you want to search for is “industrial motherboard”, som
by paulmd 3y ago
Many motherboards have 12V or 19V DC input barrels, I think thin-itx requires it.
Generally the keyword you want to search for is “industrial motherboard”, some server motherboards have them too. Asrock Rack and Asrock Industrial and Supermicro are great.
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=AM5D4ID-2T/BCM#Specifications https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=A...
https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/IMB-X1231 https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/IMB-X1231
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X300TM-ITX/index.asp https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X300TM-ITX/index.asp
(I fucking love asrock rack’s design team, absolute madlads and some seriously impressive density etc. they’re out there making the designs people don’t know they want, romed8-2T and genoad8x-2T are fantastic.)
Mini-box themselves sell dc-dc converters and “picoPSUs” that do this as well, although idk if they sell one with pcie power plugs. The M350 is a surprisingly high quality case for the price, and while my first picoPSU failed almost immediately (first shutdown iirc) they warrantied it no problem. A very funny trip through some oracle branded ordering/invoicing framework. Good people, good products.
My one criticism is that there is very obviously a lot of psu noise. I had a dell laptop and my pc desktop and the picopsu on an audio push-button switch and I kept getting a ton of ground loop and couldn’t figure it out etc and finally noticed it stopped and then came back as I plugged the M350 from the audio switch. Iirc it also showed through usb dac as well. I had the DIN plug brick and I think it has a lot of noise.
Intel NUCs are also extremely high quality implementations and have a great aftermarket with brands like akasa and hdplex etc.