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Do-It-Yourself Solar-Powered PC: Live Test
4:33 PM - September 18, 2007 by
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: solar, pc, live, test
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: solar, pc, live, test
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Do-It-Yourself Solar-Powered PC: Live Test
The Solar-PC
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| Solar-Powered AMD PC |
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Live Camera: The entire PC-setup at a glance together with the monitor.
| Hardware Configuration |
| Processor: | AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 (1.90 GHz), 2x 512 kB |
| Memory: | 2x 1 GB A-DATA DDR2-1066+ |
| Motherboard: | Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H (AMD 690G) |
| Hard Drive: | 320 GB - Western Digital WD3200AAJS |
| DVD-ROM: | SATA - Samsung SH-D163 |
| Power Supply: | Ituner M2-ATX (6 - 28 Volt, 160 Watt) |
| TFT-Monitor: | LG L1900R-BF TFT (18 Zoll, 1280x1024, 4ms, 12 Volt) |

Live Camera: The solar-powered PC with its drives and the power supply.
| PC Live-Data |
Past 2 Hours


Live Camera: The Gigabyte Mainboard with an AMD chipset.
Past 24 Hours

Past Week

| Info |
This page contains information on the uptime of our solar-powered PC. You can also find detailed information about the PC's status on the live monitors.
If you'd like to go back and start reading about our solar-powered PC project from the beginning, have a look at the articles leading up to our live test:
- Do-It-Yourself Solar-Powered PC: Technical Foundations
- Do-It-Yourself Solar-Powered PC: Hardware
- Do-It-Yourself Solar-Powered PC: Solar Components
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