The Back of the Case
Turning the case round to look at the back you can see the ports are located in a nice ATX blanking plate, there is also a PCI slot (Note there is an option to have two), an extra 2 USB Ports and an extra 2 firewire ports.
At the right of these is the input port for the Power Supply. Again, as with the rest of the case, it's very neatly laid out and well built.
You can see that this is also Hush Serial Number S001 its always nice to see you have the first of something.
Power Supply
Again as with other parts of this system the Power supply isn't your normal
type. In keeping with the passive cooling ethos Hush have used a Morex
55 watt power supply. This consists of an internal circuit board with no
cooling and an external laptop style brick which connects to the case
via a small connector and then to the plug socket. This means all the
heat is external to the case and that lots of space is free inside.
The external brick has a small green power LED so you know that it has
power. You maybe wondering just how a 55 watt power supply can possibly
create enough power for a modern PC. In short it can't but an EPIA based
system on the other hand is very different. VIA set out to create something
with very low power requirements and 55 watts is more than enough to supply
the power to the EPIA, the hard disk and the Laptop optical drive.
The picture below shows the voltages on the power lines in real time. As you can see there is very little fluctuation on any of the measurements.
