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References

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Case. [ONLINE]. Available:

http://www.in-win.com/framecode/ino

q500.html

Note: the Q500P case comes with a 300 Watt power supply.

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[ONLINE]. Available:

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The Sparkle FSP300-60BTV is used as a second 300 watt supply.

At 12 volts it gives 15 amps.

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Temperature Alarm. [ONLINE]. Available:

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ds.pdf

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Available:

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[ONLINE]. Available: http://www.nvidia.com/

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The Pine 8MB AGP NVIDIA VANTA LT video card is used to

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Gigabits per second backplane capacity. Up to six cards may be

installed in this switch. One option is a card with 48 full duplex

10/100 Base-TX ports. See:

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