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Davedree said:
Its a nice case but my opinion of M-itx differs. That case to me isn't downsizing really in fact its bigger than my housemates m-atx case which houses a e5300 and 4870,

M-itx downsizing is expensive to m-atx. But m-itx to me is something like this.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=19405850

I know it doesnt have a slot for a discreet gpu but it was purely htpc,(could get gary the grinder out) but something around that size is what i consider worth downsizing to m-itx for

By the way i still use that phone its over 3 years old and has survived many near death experiences
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I agree, I will be researching cases, the bit fenix is a placeholder in the budget. It would be nice to build or modify something else.
 
Martini1991 said:
Don't think I'd ever pay money for a downgrade of that magnitude.
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Ditto, overclocking sure has changed in purpose since I was really into it. It used to be about taking an average CPU and making it high-end, with the aim to always be cost effective. Either that, or take a high-end CPU and make it ridonculous. Now it seems its: "More cost, less power, diminishing returns". :p
 
Richdog said:
Ditto, overclocking sure has changed in purpose since I was really into it. It used to be about taking an average CPU and making it high-end, with the aim to always be cost effective. Either that, or take a high-end CPU and make it ridonculous. Now it seems its: "More cost, less power, diminishing returns". :p
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I'd still say it's about taking a high end CPU and making it ridiculous.
 
Martini1991 said:
No need to switch to Trinity, just switch out the board and the case.
Could even get an ITX AM3 board.
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That would be good, that is if he can find a Micro ATX / ITX AM3 / +; Motherboard. i can't see one here...

Edit,- one where he can stuff a 6950 onto as well, that is... without using his foot, or a Hammer.
 
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humbug said:
That would be good, that is if he can find a Micro ATX / ITX AM3 / +; Motherboard. i can't see one here...

Edit,- one where he can stuff a 6950 onto as well, that is... without using his foot, or a Hammer.
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I have looked into this, trouble is with my 1090T I have a thermalright extreme 120 in push pull, very quiet but huge. As has been noted the 6950 is no baby. I may initially try the igpu without a discrete card and use the pcie for a twin TV tuner.

Regarding the art of overclocking, I won't bother except for memory and igpu. I used to overclock mediocre processors like the thoroughbred 1400+ to get more performance, but 3.8GHz quads really do not need much in the way of overclocking and silence is the priority here.

The cost is a bit academic I tend to do one major every three years which is now due and this won't be a major as I have a good SSD, HDD's and £150-200 is a months pocket money. The cost of an AM3 itx plus case would not be a huge amount less and a lot more hassle to do.

andy.
 
Asks for resolution, gets an aspect ratio as a response.
>.<

You can assume it's 1680x1050 at first, as he then goes onto say full 1080 (16:9)

Frame rate on the clocked and high frequency RAM is certainly impressive, and definitely playable.
But I assume there's more to the game then running through a corridor.

Need a full gaming session ideally to gauge it (Similar to how OCUK showed BL2 off on the A10)

But I'm quite impressed with the APU. As long as FM2 does get the next generation APU, I can see very positive things from it in the IGP section.
 
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nkata said:
I am seriously considering this as I need to go itx for downsizing the office. I will wait on the MSI itx board on sale soon before jumping.

I will have a 1090T, A99X motherboard and HD6950 2MB graphics to sell which may offset the costs by £200 or so.

So for about an extra £150 I will get the following plus mobo. We are not gamers but would like to run some car games like F1, Dirt etc. otherwise it is browsing, TV, films, office apps and coding tasks.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x Asus HD 6670 SILENT EDITION 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x Adata XPG Xtreme v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C10 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (AX3U2133XC4G10-2X) £47.99
Total : £282.46 (includes shipping : £11.25).

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The Bit-fenix is quite a whopper as far as itx cases go.
I'd put that kit into a Lian-li PC-Q07B personally.

Itx boards: Could be quite a wait, it was with Llano.
3 months after launch before the Asus itx board appeared with Llano.

A Silverstone TJ08B-E (M-atx) isnt much bigger than the Prodigy, and we should see some M-atx boards start to appear from next week.
If you need to build now, that's what I'd go for.
 
Martini1991 said:
Asks for resolution, gets an aspect ratio as a response.
>.<

You can assume it's 1680x1050 at first, as he then goes onto say full 1080 (16:9)

Frame rate on the clocked and high frequency RAM is certainly impressive, and definitely playable.
But I assume there's more to the game then running through a corridor.

Need a full gaming session ideally to gauge it (Similar to how OCUK showed BL2 off on the A10)

But I'm quite impressed with the APU. As long as FM2 does get the next generation APU, I can see very positive things from it in the IGP section.
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Kaveri, Steamroller cores and hopefully a 500 shader GCN derived IGP.
Already touted for FM2.
 
Legion said:
Kaveri, Steamroller cores and hopefully a 500 shader GCN derived IGP.
Already touted for FM2.
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Yup, Steamrooler will be 28nm so they can use GCN on the DIE.

We should be looking at 7750 level performace from the IGPU alone. Posibly more if they use GCN-2.0

AMD 7750 has 512 GCN stream processors.
 
humbug said:
Yup, Steamrooler will be 28nm so they can use GCN on the DIE.

We should be looking at 7750 level performace from the IGPU alone. Posibly more if they use GCN-2.0

AMD 7750 has 512 GCN stream processors.
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They still need to solve the memory bandwidth issues though, if they can implement quad channel or just increase the throughput to SB/IB levels that will probably be sufficient.
 
JUST OUT OF INTEREST .. opos caps .. will my Asus M4A785D-M Pro AMD 785G support these new chips ? and will it support Vishera ?
 
Yeah, that's what I got too.
But I know some boards got an AM3+ rebrand, figured yours might be one, but it doesn't seem it.

But it says DDR2 which would actually make it AM2+ wouldn't it :confused:
 
i have ddr2 memory in it ... with my 965be .. but cant decide wetehr to get another 4gb more ram to make mien to 8 or do a few changes
 
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