Any suggestions, please?

[David Fletcher]

This now seems to be a PSU general discussion thread, so I would like to 
comment that it is no longer necessary to have an ATX power supply at all if 
a little less computing power is sufficient.

My last project that I completed a few weeks ago was an upgrade of my home 
built mini server. It now has an Intel made Atom board installed, which takes 
12V. Period. It has a step down to 5V converter on board to supply power to 
the hard drive. With a 1TB hard drive installed and fully loaded running work 
units with the boinc client it's taking about 30W from the mains. The power 
supply is an Astec (Emmerson) open frame switcher. If anybody wants to see 
the fruit of my labours this should give you a picture:-

http://flightmaker.hopto.org/me/portrait.jpg

Maybe the case is a bit OTT but I wanted a good project to use my little 
milling machine on.

The server was running 24/7 for about 3 years before I upgraded it so 
hopefully I won't have to touch it again for a while.

Dave