The DAMN crazy build

[KrYpToCiD]

Hello guys. I have in mind for a quite some time an idea for an AIO pc (WARNING! Don't want to play heavy duty games on it. Just some lite gaming (CS:GO mostly) and Photoshop. For the other games I have my main rig  ) but I want to make it as clean as possible so less cables is kinda required. And this last requirement  brings up my problems. If I use one of the thin mITX boards to be able to power-up the screen and control it, I have only one cable to power it up but i gave up some performance. If I want to use a mITX mobo I can add an GPU (1050 TI) and power it from a picoPSU, but using this set-up I must to use another power cable to power the screen.

 

And the big question is........ What to do? What should I gave up? (I really want to make this AIO bulid)

 

If we are still here, will it be enough a 160W pico PSU to power an i5 4460  and GTX 1050TI ( it don't require additional power plug) or I should go bigger?

 

Thanks in advance and sorry if I've made some mistakes, my english is not the best =) 

[PrashMotion]

Why do you want to water cool a gtx 1050 ti, or did I misunderstand you there. I wouldn't use a pico PSU in any way. Grab a normal one instead. When choosing don't try to choose a PSU as small as possible. If your rig "would" draw 200 watts for example you should use a 400 watts power supply+

[Fictionvl]

10 minutes ago, PrashMotion said:

Why do you want to water cool a gtx 1050 ti, or did I misunderstand you there. I wouldn't use a pico PSU in any way. Grab a normal one instead. When choosing don't try to choose a PSU as small as possible. If your rig "would" draw 200 watts for example you should use a 400 watts power supply+

I think he means an All in One PC like the screen with the actual PC

[PrashMotion]

Just now, Fictionvl said:

I think he means an All in One PC like the screen with the actual PC

this makes more sense, lol I read aio and think of water cooling immediately

[brob]

@KrYpToCiD

 

Can you use an i5-4690T or i5-4590T? They are low power cpu and you might be able to squeeze everything into 160W. Although it will be very, very tight.

[KrYpToCiD]

1 hour ago, brob said:

@KrYpToCiD

 

Can you use an i5-4690T or i5-4590T? They are low power cpu and you might be able to squeeze everything into 160W. Although it will be very, very tight.

To be honest that is actually a very good idea and put it in use. But I'll think about choosing a more powerfull PSU just in case. I mean there is a budget that I want to keep but I'll pass it if is necessary.

 

[KrYpToCiD]

3 hours ago, PrashMotion said:

this makes more sense, lol I read aio and think of water cooling immediately

Yeah. Sorry about that. I've forgot about that meaning :))) 

[KrYpToCiD]

Anyway..... leaving the PSU problem aside..... dose anyone has any idea about getting screen and pc to be powered by a single cord/ plug? This thing is bothering me more than anything.........

[PrashMotion]

5 minutes ago, KrYpToCiD said:

Anyway..... leaving the PSU problem aside..... dose anyone has any idea about getting screen and pc to be powered by a single cord/ plug? This thing is bothering me more than anything.........

usually you will need one cord for each. 

[KrYpToCiD]

16 minutes ago, PrashMotion said:

usually you will need one cord for each. 

yeah. Unfortunately I'm well aware about that  I've taught initially about a power splitter that split the power from wall plug to PSU and screen with something but I don't think how or if it'll work.

[brob]

3 hours ago, KrYpToCiD said:

yeah. Unfortunately I'm well aware about that  I've taught initially about a power splitter that split the power from wall plug to PSU and screen with something but I don't think how or if it'll work.

An extension cord with 2-3 outlets. 

[Brett_Bst]

5 hours ago, KrYpToCiD said:

Anyway..... leaving the PSU problem aside..... dose anyone has any idea about getting screen and pc to be powered by a single cord/ plug? This thing is bothering me more than anything.........

I would run a wire from the wall to the PSU, then daisy chain it to the moniter so its still one wire from the wall then the next wire comes from the PSU and as most moniters are 12 volt it could be done, the cleanest way woud be a custom cable from the psu to the moniter with say an 6+2 pin connector along the line so a GPU could be added at a alter date if wanted, I'm not sure a 160w will handle a cpu, mbo, gpu and moniter etc though but maybe it will I don't know lol.

This wa the pc/moniter would only need the psu pluged into the wall to run the pc and moniter like all other all in ones

[KrYpToCiD]

11 hours ago, Brett_Bst said:

I would run a wire from the wall to the PSU, then daisy chain it to the moniter so its still one wire from the wall then the next wire comes from the PSU and as most moniters are 12 volt it could be done, the cleanest way woud be a custom cable from the psu to the moniter with say an 6+2 pin connector along the line so a GPU could be added at a alter date if wanted, I'm not sure a 160w will handle a cpu, mbo, gpu and moniter etc though but maybe it will I don't know lol.

This wa the pc/moniter would only need the psu pluged into the wall to run the pc and moniter like all other all in ones

This is an option...... I've taught about it too. The only difference will be an transformer thing (I don't think this is the right term in english  ) that could divide an 85w for monitor and 160w or 200w (i don't know yet what I'll buy) for pc, but this would be custom made so it's kinda tricky.