SFF APU build

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Darakian

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80x10mm fan, cooler rated to 95 watts (at full fan speed). 3300 rpm 25 CFM 40mm tall
A10 6800/5800 IS 100 watts before overclock, though there are slower 65 watt versions
For that cooler go Haswell, with SSD.

Need to know max height for cooler in that case.
Last I knew Lian Li bundled SFF power supplies were terrible (or at least not good.).

A10 6800 has about HD 6670 performance, depending.

Case is 88mm wide, deduct 30mm for motherboard and CPU?
 
I have been seeing rumors on the kaveri chips to have gpus with about the 77xx range of gpus in them (13 compute units) they in theory are due in q4 2013 and might be worth the wait over the Richland chips. Make sure to get an fm2+ board, also has anyone seen the power ratings on these? I think that lian li case is pretty sweet looking. Assuming you are looking at these chips because of the GPU power they bring to the table, if you were going to go the intel route you might be okay if you found a chip with the iris 5200 pro (say nvidia 640m equivalent power) although I am not sure when / if they will release these for 1150 socket boards(they are already in the imac if you want to see perf numbers).

Also of note the 6700 has the same gpu as the 6800k, just lower clocks on the cpu and its a 65w part.
 
That case will only allow 55mm for a cpu cooler, the cooler you have chosen will just about cope with a 65w cpu, to use with a 95w cpu it will need to run the fan flat out and expect it to run hot, that cooler is quite small and Slim fan doesnt help either. at full speed that cooler will not be anywhere near the Word silent

I think, you need to look at a diferent case that can take a better cooler, or resign yourself to a 65 watt cpu, I cant see you getting a cooler big enough to cool a 100 watt cpu
 
Ya, I'm limited to the 55mm height. Thanks for the input all, I'll keep watching for Kaveri chips.
 
Well, the case is on the way already. I am considering a haswell build, but I want to see what the AMD developer conference next month brings. Either way I'll try to do a decent review of the kozuti on whatever chip I end up with (might be a 100w richland to begin with). I get the feeling the kozuti and single case fan will be able to handle the 100watt.

Edit:
Case and most of the system in hand. The Thermal Right AXP-100 fits just fine in the pc-q12. I'll report back later with thermals.

Edit #2:
With a haswell xeon e3-1245 I idle between 34C and 40C (depending on the day). And Load takes me up to around 57C. I may move to a slim 120mm fan to drop that load temp in the future :p
 
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