Gizmodo: psu

Foot Warmers Are Only a Power Source Away

Haroon Malik — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:10:00 EST

Holy crap! We've just solved one of life's great mysteries, and wanted to let you in on it. Keeping your feet warm when you cannot be bothered/are too much of a cheapskate to invest in a gadget based solution has always been a problem, but we've sussed it. Here's how: get your feet up close and personal to your PSUs. That's all there is to it. Nothing more, we promise you.

We've been doing it subconsciously for months, but now we have realized, we thought we'd let you in on the foot warming action. Unless you want your power supplies to smell like macaroni cheese, we suggest keeping your tootsies covered/clean. (Quick tip; socks usually do a good job of covering up feet. For proof of this assertion, check out my most excellent sock, complete with fluffy poodle head, in the pic above.) Added bonus; if you have ice cold feet that are about to drop off from frost bite, they'll cool your power supplies—everyone's a winner this Christmas!

Aerocool Power Supply with Sockets Instead of Too-Many-Cables

Charlie White — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:08:13 EDT

PC case modders know that power supply units (PSU) usually have a spaghetti bowl's worth of cables along for the ride, and what do you do with that mess if you don't need them all? This Aerocool Turbine Power 550-watt PSU solves that problem, letting you add just the cables you'll use, plugging them into its convenient sockets. Hey, less clutter, more coolage.

It has all the latest neat stuff, too, such as a couple of LEDs on the fan head, and its ATX 12V version 2.0 compliance reduces power consumption by 25%. Its $110. – Charlie White

Product page [Frozen CPU, via CrowdedBrain]

World's Smallest PSU

Travis Hudson — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:15:07 EST

Mini-box announced what it calls the world's smallest power supply on Thursday, the picoPSU-120. There are no fans and it runs completely silent. Roughly the size of two AA batteries, it actually plugs directly into the motherboard's ATX power connector. It can power the ATX motherboard connection, peripherals and hard drive. It is said that this can power up to 3GHz P4 machines, but it was obviously designed for low-power CPUs. This could serve a great purpose for the modder extraordinaires and at $49.95 it isn t too bad of a deal.

World's Smallest PC Power Supply Introduced [Extremetech]

More Power, Extra Quiet

tgrumet — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:48:08 EST

If you've got yourself an Intel or AMD PC running on dual-card SLI/Crossfire setups powered by dual-core CPUs, you've probably had it with the extra heat and noise these things can generate. Welcome MGE XG Magnum, a high-end power supply that promises to dissipate heat using a huge heat pipe system with copper radiator instead of the big old fan we're used to. You'll also get a 600-Watt output and a completely silent dB in an .8-inch thick anodized aluminium chassis. An LCD displays temperature, wattage, and all three voltage lines, and a modular cable system gives each cable its own jack at the power supply and keeps things nice and tidy. Not amazingly new but it looks like it can beat up your grandma.

MGE Completely Silent 600-Watt PSU [Bios Magazine]