Previews - AMD Athlon 5350 (28nm Kabini)

[HEXUS]

Launching today, we take a look at desktop Kabini's potential.

Read more.

[cjs150]

Could be nice for an HTPC. under £35 for the M/B about £40 for the CPU, some cheap ram, an SSD, case (total £200). Not bad if it performs.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Scan has two motherboards for under £30:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigab...-sub-hdmi-matx
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-...-hdmi-mini-itx

[3dcandy]

And a quick look on Amazon reveals that the 5350 is a 2gig/25 watt/4 core chip for under £40

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-AD5350JAHMBOX-Extensions-Virtualization-Technology/dp/B00IOMFAQ0

[3dcandy]

I might be able to use one of these in a NAS/Server box which my current Atom based box suffers sometimes due to lack of performance.
Or even a big money box masquerading as a MAME machine

[scaryjim]

Scan has two motherboards for under £30:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-...-hdmi-mini-itx

Woah woah woah woah woah.

That's a socketed mITX board for £27?

Well played AMD, well played...

[3dcandy]

Woah woah woah woah woah.

That's a socketed mITX board for £27?

Well played AMD, well played...

Yup - just over £26. 2 SATA ports as well. The ASRock one would make a nice NAS/Server box with 4 x SATA ports too, though you'd have to use software RAID

[3dcandy]

http://www.kikatek.com/P439591/AM1B-...FQcTwwodB4YAfA

[Agent]

Can't wait to see the load/idle power draw on these

[scaryjim]

Can't wait to see the load/idle power draw on these

CAT's started compiling a review thread in hardware:

http://forums.hexus.net/cpus/319797-...ew-thread.html

tbh, we won't get any realistic power draw figures until someone does a review with a < 100W pico - at wall draws are < 40W, which on the PSUs most people are using are < 10% load so likely to be very inefficient....

[mtyson]

GIGABYTE Announces New AM1 Series Motherboards
Press release here.

[babylon100]

Tell you what is really great about that Asus board, They have been a bit smart and stuck a serial port on it, There are so many hobbyists out there that still use old slow computers just because they want a printer or serial port.

[scaryjim]

GIGABYTE Announces New AM1 Series Motherboards
Press release here.

The S2P variant appears to be specifically aimed at industrial use and/or the maker community - parallel, serial, and PCIc? very retro

Speaking of, it looks like Kabini @ 2.05GHz has about the same performance as Athlon X2 at 2.1Ghz. Makes my X2 4050e pretty much redundant

[shaithis]

Typical, caved-in and ordered parts for my second HTPC today.....off to cancel quickly!

[DanceswithUnix]

CAT's started compiling a review thread in hardware:

http://forums.hexus.net/cpus/319797-...ew-thread.html

tbh, we won't get any realistic power draw figures until someone does a review with a < 100W pico - at wall draws are < 40W, which on the PSUs most people are using are < 10% load so likely to be very inefficient....

Wonder how careful they will be with idle draw though. If these are aimed at really low end case/psu setups as part of keeping the cost down, then cheap is going to win over efficient so they might just not bother.

[HalloweenJack]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-AD5350JA...ds=athlon+5350


under £40 for the top end Athlon quad core.