HTPC Case

[VettleBolt]

I Recently Upgraded my Gaming PC with new High end parts, and now i was wanting to upgrade my HTPC

 

The Parts i will be using are the old ones from my gaming PC

ASRock FM2A88M-HD+ Motherboard

AMD A10 6800K

and i was looking for a tiny case like the one linus reviewed a while back 

it was the Silverstone ML05 Tiny ITX PC Case

 

[Stagea]

I Recently Upgraded my Gaming PC with new High end parts, and now i was wanting to upgrade my HTPC

The Parts i will be using are the old ones from my gaming PC

ASRock FM2A88M-HD+ Motherboard

AMD A10 6800K

and i was looking for a tiny case like the one linus reviewed a while back

it was the Silverstone ML05 Tiny ITX PC Case

How small do you need it to be and what is your budget? You have a uATX motherboard, so you probably need something a tad bigger.

Have you considered the Cooler Master Mini 210? It is an inexpensive case that allows you to fit in full sized items like a standard ODD.

The Silverstone ML03 / ML04 are the uATX equivalents of the ML05 that you like. It costs a little more, but it comes with the good Silverstone build quality.

[VettleBolt]

How small do you need it to be and what is your budget? You have a uATX motherboard, so you probably need something a tad bigger.

Have you considered the Cooler Master Mini 210? It is an inexpensive case that allows you to fit in full sized items like a standard ODD.

The Silverstone ML03 / ML04 are the uATX equivalents of the ML05 that you like. It costs a little more, but it comes with the good Silverstone build quality.

i need it around the same size

[Stagea]

i need it around the same size

Get a smaller motherboard then, so that you can look at mini itx cases.

[ltguy]

Those higher sku's amd apu's run pretty hot for such small cases. Fans are gonna be pretty loud to maintain temps.

[Stagea]

Those higher sku's amd apu's run pretty hot for such small cases. Fans are gonna be pretty loud to maintain temps.

Underclocking and/or undervolting helps heaps. I was able to setup a mildly overclocked but well undervolted A8-3870K (100w TDP) APU on a case designed for Atom processors (Element Q) with a cooler designed for 65w TDP processors (Kozuti).

[TassieTim]

one my htpcs is in an Silverstone ML03

running an AMD Asrock FM2+ apu cpu (only an A6 from memory )

running 4x Noctua NF-R8's along one side venting the systems heat , what there is of it . Still very quite and can't be heard over anything i play using it.