You figured out already that PicoPSU draws +12v DC from a power brick-- and most of those, especially beyond 100W or so, tend to be fan cooled and noisy when they're at full load if memory ...

For the picoPSU-150-XT you can just buy a smaller power brick more suited to your load, not sure if that would help efficiency or not (I forget what the DC-DC curve looks like on the picoPSU). However ...

There's quite a lot of stuff here at CES, and this is definitely one of the coolest things we've seen. We have been looking at the ecosystem growing around VIA's ITX and Nano-ITX platforms and we've ...

The picoPSU-120 12V DC-DC ATX PSU isn't your typical PSU as the "120" implies. Nonetheless, this is an ingenious little device is rated at 120 Watts and can handle a max load of 140 watts to your ...