A10-6800K & Asrock FM2A75M-ITX - No GPU?

[pbrain]

Chuck in a GPU man, pocket rocket !

Edit. I used to be big into car audio man. Did the "Oooo, ahh, pressure car" Metro Turbo with a 18" Stroker in it and Phoenix Gold Son of frank n amp.

nice audio gear (kiddies will be scratching their heads though!)

 

[pbrain]

Use a PCIe x16 riser to get the GPU Parallel to the motherboard, so you still have a really small build, but with a GPU

If i were to do that, then i'd go Intel. I really don't see the point of APU and a mid-range, matching GPU, when in the same space you could have a cooler, faster running Intel & any GPU.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

If i were to do that, then i'd go Intel. I really don't see the point of APU and a mid-range, matching GPU, when in the same space you could have a cooler, faster running Intel & any GPU.

I thought you already had the APU build up and running and was only suggesting it as a cheap upgrade to give a bit more grunt on the APU. (Also crossfire with an APUs on board graphics has always caught my eye).

 

[pbrain]

I thought you already had the APU build up and running and was only suggesting it as a cheap upgrade to give a bit more grunt on the APU. (Also crossfire with an APUs on board graphics has always caught my eye).

yeah, i got the APU running, i built it out of curiosity to see how good these APU's were. I nearly had the 5800k until I knew about the 6800k...i nearly held off for Kaveri, but i can use the 6800k in a HTPC build later. I like the idea of a minute PC with no graphics card, i tried the 2700k's iGP and overclocked it, it was not bad, but not good either.

I've got a number of PC's including a pair of 2nd Gen i7's (2600k & 2700k), Dual Opteron server and other older PC's (4200x2,P4,Athlon etc)

The spare 2600k will be WC'd and overclocked, i can use that for Blu-Ray conversion etc.

 

[pbrain]

Popped back to Overclockers today and ended up getting the Akasa LX CPU cooler, come back and tried to fit. The memory modules are quite tall and stop the heatsink from sitting onto the CPU (about 2mm gap)

So with option of returning to Overclockers or a bit of DIY, I ended up taking a grinder to the one side of the heatsink and cutting off around 15mm section, this allowed me to fit the heatsink but now the fan is no longer able to attach!

Luckily, the Milo has a fan plate in the right place, so instead of using the slim Akasa fan I dropped the Noctua 120mm fan instead, hopefully this will give a better draught.

Will report back with findings (fingers crossed)

 

[pbrain]

The Akasa + Noctua combo isn't working very well. Had a quick round on Warframe and fan kicked in, so out of curiosity went into bios and temps where slowly increasing to high 70's
restarted PC, let it idle in windows until fans slowed down. Went back to bios to watch temps & fan speed. At 62'c the Noctua hit it's ceiling of 1400rpm, then the CPU just carried on getting hotter...

Next step...better fan

doesn't help that PCMeter or Coretemp won't read the APU!

 

[pbrain]

OK, i put the Slim Akasa fan back in. Within bios this fan went up to 2100rpm and i thought it was holding it's own, but the APU started slowly creeping past 70'c.

So i've order these...

Corsair Fan, SP120 PWM High Pressure Fan 4 pin, Dual Pack (CO-9050014-WW)
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-017-CS

which will come tomorrow (not riding back up to Stoke today!)

But, because i'm impatient, i've been playing with the voltages. i've undervoltaged the CPU from 1.385 to 1.250...wow, what a difference!
The temps in bios are maxing at 59'c, been gaming for an hour with no problems (in fact it's smoother...no thermal throttling!)
I tried to be cheeky and drop to 1.20v - no good.
Put the GPU back to stock as OC'ing didn't gain any benefit, just increased stuttering...fast RAM is the key to this APU
With the new fans i'm going to see if i can tease the CPU clocks up...

 

[pbrain]

Put the new fan in, hasn't done a great deal (-2'c) compared to the Akasa slim fan.

But regardless, i went and done some OC'ing, took the CPU turbo from x44 to x46 & GPU back to 1054mhz, set the CPU voltage back to auto...

3DMark06 = 10616
Bioshock setting High (5) 1920x1080p = 49fps average

The GPU overclock seems to work better with the CPU overclocked, no pops or tearing