Smallest M-ITX Case for A10-5800

gropingmantis · 5 Jan 2013 at 19:39

The 5700. The PSU inside the case is actually a 120W (or at least thats whats printed on the PCB). Not sure how the Noctua would fair with a full on 5800k. And I use it as my linux bux. Which at the moment means Steam Linux Beta! It handles Minecraft, TF2 etc with ease. Fans speed up but it never gets near the max temps.

ZXSpectrum · 6 Jan 2013 at 12:42

There is a little confusion about the wattage on those chassis. Stated as 180w but it sounds like the internal psu is 120w but the power brick is 60w totalling 180w but surely that means its only really 60w. Fine for little low power unit but not really suitable for 5700/5800. Think I am still going to pick one up for my new htpc.

gropingmantis · 6 Jan 2013 at 15:26

Skyline said:
There is a little confusion about the wattage on those chassis. Stated as 180w but it sounds like the internal psu is 120w but the power brick is 60w totalling 180w but surely that means its only really 60w. Fine for little low power unit but not really suitable for 5700/5800. Think I am still going to pick one up for my new htpc.

Yeah its the rating of the power brick that counts, I have a 150W connected to mine but I wouldnt try to pull more than 120W through the PSU. An interesting thing to note is that you can actually pull more through pico PSUs as long as its on the 12V rail (i.e. a GPU) as they do not regulate the 12V rail, so as long as you have a big enough power brick (like for example the ones from the Xbox or X51) and your drives + CPU + RAM + mobo dont pull more than the max rating of the PSU (which most setups wont) then you can run a beefy gaming rig off a pico.

ZXSpectrum · 6 Jan 2013 at 15:34

I have seen a couple of people that are using 360 psu bricks with pico psu. I actually have a couple of original ones spare(think they 241w) is there a guide on how to convert them?

turboborked · 7 Jan 2013 at 17:42

Hmmm so what you're saying is...f1c and picoPSU + 45w ivy bridge + low profile 7750 as an interesting 5700 alternative and makeshift cooking hob?

ZXSpectrum · 7 Jan 2013 at 18:38

turboborked said:
Hmmm so what you're saying is...f1c and picoPSU + 45w ivy bridge + low profile 7750 as an interesting 5700 alternative and makeshift cooking hob?

LOL... Actually never thought of that..

Chrisoldinho · 8 Jan 2013 at 22:41

A good selection of cases here (I am not linking to a competitor).

http://www.aone.co.uk/cases_mini_itx.asp

I particularly like the CiT MTX002B Black mini-ITX Case with 300W PSU, cheap and cheerful and can be modded to suit, I have just purchased one for my own build, which I will be starting a thread on shortly.

yannis76 · 14 Jan 2013 at 19:26

Legion said:
I've done a fair few A10-5800k and A10-5700 builds now.

Most of them running on Pico PSU's.
If you're going to game on it, get a 160w PSU and a 192w power brick.
The 192w power brick is rated at 16A and well worth it over a 150w.

Gaming draw running stock is anything up to 130w, so you'll want that bit extra just to give you some peace of mind.
Running on the edge of a Pico PSU's capabilities will shorten it's life and isn't generally good for the rest of the system.

I have a build of my own running an A10-5800k on a 160w Pico with the 192w brick.
It's runs very nicely @ 4.3ghz, 1083gpu, 8gb 2133 Gskill Ares.
I play steam games on it in bed, fantastic little box.

Is it possible to give us some more info about A10-5800K vs 5700. What are the real differences in temperature, noise and performance? Is the A10-5800K worth over the 5700? I am asking mainly for a gaming HTPC so temp and noise
do play a role here.

thx