Wednesday, October 3rd 2012
AMD Shows Off Silent A10-5700 System
AMD Japan teamed up with ASUS to display a concept 100% fanless (silent) HTPC build to buyers at Tokyo's Akihabara electronics shopping district. The build uses Streacom FC5 chassis with a CPU base modified for socket FM2. The base conducts heat from the processor using four copper heat pipes to the aluminum chassis, which doubles up as a heatsink. The build utilizes AMD A10-5700 APU, ASUS F2A85-M Pro micro-ATX motherboard based on AMD A85X chipset, 8 GB of AMD-certified DDR3-1866 MHz memory, and Corsair Force GT SSD. The concept build shows buyers that AMD's "Trinity" APUs are ready, willing, and able to power silent HTPC builds.
Sources:
FanlessTech, ITMedia.co.jp
40 Comments on AMD Shows Off Silent A10-5700 System
Now they need to figure out the way to do the same for discrete graphic cards so they can still be rather simply replaced with new ones. That would be awesome.
OMG THIS PLASTIC LAPTOP FEELS COOLER SO THEREFORE IT IS COOLER
i''ve seriously had people argue with me, saying that LCD monitors use more power than CRT - because they feel warmer to touch.
Space? You'd only need it for heatpipes, not the heatsink itself.
Maybe it could work with some very very low power CPU's but not with 35-45W CPU's and similar TDP ranged GPU's.
A good example are passively cooled GPU cards where they pack as many fins as they can, I never seen one that has heatpipes attached to a sheet of aluminium.
www.hfx.at/index.php
lol damnit! I have the case, the Streacom FC5-OD, with a blu-ray drive, I'm testing it with an A8-3870 as I'm waiting for the 5700 and motherboard to arrive! I'm literally building this machine and have been working on it before this came out :P.
Btw. the case works really well! Even with a 100W APU it's able to run without overheating, during idle it goes to around 36-40 degrees, and during games it gets about 63 degrees, although if I stress everything it can get to be about 70 degrees.
Personally I'm planning on forcing in a passive 6670 as well to run Hybrid Crossfire, this is however quite a task as the gfx obviously gets quite hot, and there's currently no way to use the case for the gfx as far as cooling.
Just to prove I'm not lying, I made this thread(On S|A) just before I bought the case.
*Edit* This case is the newer version called FC5-OD Evo or something, as it has the button in the middle of the Optical drive, and "only" 4 Heatpipes for the CPU, otherwise it's nearly identical.
but that prototype didn't make it to the market i think :/