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Posted: **Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:11 am**

These are the parts you need to Make a PC that runs on Direct DC and is Battery Bank Voltage Aware and can shut itself down when power gets too low!
This allows you to use inexpensive desktops parts off-grid!

Eliminating the 115V-254V AC Mains Power supply (plus Eliminating the use for an DC AC inverter)

MiniBox M4-ATX 250W 6V-30V Intelligent Car PSU
http://linitx.com/product/12004" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://linitx.com/product/minibox-m4atx ... sure/12389" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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The M4-ATX 250W 6V-30V is an intelligent, high power, vehicle (car / boat / electric cart) DC-DC ATX PC power supply designed for use with car pc or general purpose battery powered applications. Designed to provide power and to control the motherboards's ON/OFF switch based on ignition status, M4-ATX is a wide input (6 to 30V) vehicle / car / battery operated ATX power supply capable of surviving tough car engine cranks (down to 6V) as well as transient over-voltage situations. Connect it to your car / boat / RV / solar battery and power up your PC!

By using Patent Pending HyperWatt[TM] technologies, M4-ATX packs an impressive amount of power relative with its small footprint. M4-ATX has several key advantages over traditional power supplies:

    Fits any motherboard equipped with a 20 or 24pin ATX connector.
    100% silent, fanless, no moving parts.
    Operates from 6-30V, multi-chemistry batteries supported.
    Highly efficient design, does not produce a lot of heat.
    Works with any Intel Core Duo as well as all VIA or AMD processors. 

Features:

    250 Watts (300 Watts peak)
    20/24 pin ATX, 6-30V wide input
    Programmable timing settings via USB (Software available HERE)
    Intelligent shutdown controller
    Onboard Dipswitch for shutdown timer settings - no jumpers required
    ON/OFF motherboard control
    Survives vehicle engine cranks
    Battery deep discharge prevention
    High efficiency, 250 watts output
    "Anti-Thump" Amplifier remote control
    <1.5mA standby current
    VIA, Intel Core Duo, AMD CPU support
    Dimensions: 122mm W x 112mm D x 29mm H
    ROHS Compliant

This bad boy will happily run a
- AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail
Integrated R7 Graphics, Quad-Core Technology, 3.70GHz Clock Speed, 720MHz GPU Clock Speed, 4MB L2 Cache, 512 Radeon Cores, DDR3-2400 Support, 95W TDP, 3 Year Warranty.
http://www.amazon.com/AMD-A10-Series-AP ... 00H7Z7YMI/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Impressively it can Play the latest games very well Without the need of a Extra Video Card
Video Editing / Video Format Shifting and still impressive Fraps Recoding the screen as you game

- Gigabyte F2A88XN-WIFI AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-technolo ... 00KXB4G8I/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- GeIL EVO Potenza 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C10 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (GPB316GB2133C10ADC)
http://www.amazon.com/D316GB-2400-11-EV ... 00FRYSXQC/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Kingston 480GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/480G)

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http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-2-5-Inch-SV300S3D7-480G/dp/B00FZ3C9UQ/

- Pioneer BDR-209EBK 16x BDXL-RW Multilayer 128GB retail

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http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-BDR-209EBK-Blu-ray-Writer-DVD±DL/dp/B00K87ZKH8/

128GB are the new Back-up Achieve BluRay Triple layer Disks

- Cooler Master HAF XB EVO ATX Chassis for PC

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http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Power-Supply-RC-902XB-KKN2/dp/B00FFJ0H3Q/

- Antec H20 1250 Cooling Kit KUHLER 1250 Black

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http://www.amazon.com/Antec-1250-Cooling-KUHLER-Black/dp/B00F2WOQHY/

If you get a fan controller you can throttle down both fans or have one fan on and one off if just doing desktop stuff

However Games + Video editing both fans on is a must

(optional) If you do want the Extra GPU
Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Power: 115W TDP

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http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-11232-00-20G/dp/B00IU34RNU/

- note this card will req an extra 115W if added

I did finds a few HDMI 32" Widescreen 1080p TV Sets that Run on 12V Directly
However decoded to go one better DLP LED Projector that runs on 12V
Optoma ML750 WXGA 700 Lumen 3D Ready Portable DLP LED Projector with MHL Enabled HDMI Port

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http://www.amazon.com/Optoma-ML750-Portable-Projector-Enabled/dp/B00GGGQHG8/

Posted: **Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:54 pm**

Cool!!!

What I love about the forum is that I can always come back and check out the parts you list as finances and time allow.

I do like the power supply a lot

Posted: **Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:34 pm**

What I love about the forum is that I can always come back and check out the parts you list as finances and time allow.

You know what funny about that

finances and time allow.

You can wait out new AMD's APU for 2015 is Carrizo means if you wait out you can get the newer APU on the block (more powerful upgraded chip for the same price or just a little more)
Nice thing about New apu chip releases you get better power efficiency on each new generation

Carrizo is the 65W range

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:34 pm**

Nice!!!

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