Competing units have all used Enhance Power supplies, but AMS opted for a Chyang Fun small power supply.
They accomplish this partly by using 3- and 4-phase power regulation on the motherboards. Little computers are doing a great job of working well with what we would normally consider sub-standard power supplies. The coil nearest the ATX power connector gets very hot in operation. Memory is limited to a maximum of 2GB, which should be enough for most any use of this small system.ĪMS appears to use a 3 phase power design as you can see from the components in this view. The small motherboard size, like other SFF, limits memory to 2 DIMMs, but the 2 DIMMs are dual-channel to make the most of the 865G chipset. For now, the Frequency/Voltage tab in the BIOS is certainly misnamed and empty, since there are no frequency or voltage adjustments at all.
AMS states that stability was their first concern, and that they may add overclocking features in future BIOS revisions.
With a 220-watt Power Supply and edgy styling, we expected more. The AMS motherboard was quite a disappointment, since it is the first SFF system we have reviewed with no overclocking adjustments at all.
