SHimmer45 Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 always been a bit of a fan of the small low powered systems. has any one got / used / experience of AMD's am1 platform Intel Baytrail Celerons Intel Braswell pentiums (i was thinking that these might be suitable for some hyper-v / vmware home labbing as some support VT-X) AMD's are cheaper as usual but they can sometimes lag on single thread stuff these days. My AM2 Athlon 4050e is starting to feel a little leggy and is often ramping up to 40-50 watts fan spinning like a goodun when youtubing for example, it might not be helping that chrome dropped support for the gfx offload for ati 4000 series cards a while back so defaulting to the CPU
3s-gtech Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 Not used AM1 personally, it's meant to be a great little platform but it is for light use only - the CPUs are in line with Bay Trail performance (but faster APU GPU/IGP). Bay Trail Celeron should be comparable in performance/price but isn't upgradeable/socketed. The AMD solution wins when it comes to anything 3D. Budget CPU Roundup: AMD Kabini vs. Intel Bay Trail-D > Final Word: Kabini vs. Intel Bay Trail-D - TechSpot The Braswell chips will be faster be a large margin. There's also FM2+ e.g. AMD A10-7800 3.5GHz Socket FM2+ 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor - Ebuyer Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI Socket FM2+ DVI HDMI 7.1 Channel Audio mini ITX Motherboard - Ebuyer That'll give you another 45W CPU (when set as such), mini-ITX board, powerful media playback capability, great 3D capability (relatively) and upgradeability. More expensive, may be worth it.
SHimmer45 Posted July 7, 2015 Author Posted July 7, 2015 FM2+ a little overkill for what i need i think and its alot more expensive. more investigation required i think it will come to to what i can get the best deal on.
3s-gtech Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Yeah, it's more of a complete package, with the heat, power consumption etc that entails. AM1 is very impressive with 1080p video content. AMD Athlon 5350 APU and AM1 Platform Review - Introduction Make sure you pair it with an SSD, and you'll have a neat little machine for very little cash. 1
chilbs Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 I have used an AM1 based system and very impressed for what we paid. 1
SHimmer45 Posted July 7, 2015 Author Posted July 7, 2015 I have used an AM1 based system and very impressed for what we paid. what one did you go for?
chilbs Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 MSI AM1I mitx motherboard 5350 APU 4gb crucial ram crucial bx100 120GB cheap case 1
chilbs Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 (edited) Is not quiet but we did buy the cheapest of cheap cases with a PSU. The PSU fan was noisy and the case was flimsy so seemed to cause a bit more noise that if you had a decent case and PSU. Edited July 7, 2015 by chilbs
SHimmer45 Posted July 7, 2015 Author Posted July 7, 2015 low end nuc? last time i looked these were still a fair few £££ even after adding a case for these small itx systems
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