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3870K plans, but have some concerns.. - LmmO - 2012-05-11
The plan is to stuff the hardware into a silverstone ML02. 120w PSU. Goal: play anything I can throw at it... Bluerays, 3D content, and rips of all kind. Mild gaming is also wanted. (Have had A6-3500, but the system broke, and now I want a little extra).
The hardware I have thought of is:
A8-3870K
A75 chipset, haven't decied which brand/model yet. ITX or mATX
2x4gb 1866mhz memory
I have:
1x 3.5" Seagate 7200rpm 64mb drive, and a 2.5" 5400rpm drive. And will be connecting USBpowered harddrive once in a while.
My concern is that the a8-3870k is 100w TDP, and I can't seem to find any cpucoolers small enough to fit the case, and cool a 100w tdp processor?
My other concern is power consumtion.... Seems like a intel 65w tdp and discrete is a better option for me?? Performance wise, cooleroption, and powerconsumtion. Price is almost identical (3870k vs intel w. discrete 6570ish).
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g620-amd-a8-3870k-radeon-hd-6670,3140-11.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-a8-3870k_8.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-fusion-intel-core-i3_8.html#sect0
And this guy (though I don't intent on any overclocking), but he has been forced to underclock his system just to use it
http://www.overclock.net/t/1240756/review-of-amd-a8-3870k-asrock-a75m-itx <- is this caused by using a small ITX board?? Because there is room for a bigger motherboard in the silverstone ml02.
RE: 3870K plans, but have some concerns.. - bluray - 2012-05-11
You should be fine with the 120w PSU for regular HTPC usages. If you stress the system, you will run into problem......you can always install this "Premium picoPSU-160-XT w/AC-DC 12V 192W 16A switching adapter" fanless PSU.......
RE: 3870K plans, but have some concerns.. - LmmO - 2012-05-11
When playing games, wouldn't the system be stressed?
RE: 3870K plans, but have some concerns.. - bluray - 2012-05-11
(2012-05-11, 21:39)LmmO Wrote: When playing games, wouldn't the system be stressed?That too.....especially when you do multi-task, such as playing game or watching movie while transcoding bluray file in the backaground....
RE: 3870K plans, but have some concerns.. - LmmO - 2012-05-11
No point of going for the 3870K if i'm not to use all of its power... :/