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AM1 is kind of a wierd platform. It's sort of budget, sort of slow, but not budget enough to really sell in the 1st-world.
This combo + rebate deal makes it a lot more palatable. I built some AM1 rigs a few months ago with Sempron 3850 1.3Ghz quad-core AM1 APUs, they are kind of slow running single-threaded apps like Firefox. For media decoding, they're alright.
The 5350 APU in this deal runs at 2.05Ghz (20.5 multi), and my understanding is that you can run them at up to 21 multi in the appropriate mobo, plus do a BCLK OC of around 5%.
I know that my laptop with an A6-6310 APU (quad-core small-core 1.8Ghz) is not really slow, it's reasonably snappy. It's one generation newer than the APU described in this deal, though.
Edit: For a case + PSU, may I suggest this one? I've built a few of these, they're decent:
http://www.directron.biz/wt02.html
Edit: I may have to un-recommend that case.
I left my AM1 Sempron 3850 rig, overclocked to 106 bus speed, on Windows Update (Win7), and went into the other room. The monitor went to sleep, and I figured it was just going to crunch away, until I got the list of available updates. I left my internet radio playing in my browser, along with a few tabs from this forum.
Well, came back a few hours later, PC didn't appear to be on. Clicked the mouse (ambiance lights were off), lights flashed and kind of flickered. Looked at PC, power LED was off, hit the power switch, and it booted, and there was a menu, "Start Windows Normally" was highlighted with a countdown timer. Obvious, it had failed to shut down or boot properly somehow.
So, not sure what happened.
I do remember, when I was sitting at it before, I started to smell a "warm electronics" smell. So I don't know if the PSU in this case is going already. It's barely used.
Edit: Hmm, I had "Sleep after 30 minutes" set in Power Options. I disabled that. But why didn't it wake from sleep when I clicked my mouse, and why wasn't the Power LED blinking to indicate it was in sleep mode? Sounds like the +5Vsb on the PSU may not be up to specs.
AM1 is kind of a wierd platform. It's sort of budget, sort of slow, but not budget enough to really sell in the 1st-world.
This combo + rebate deal makes it a lot more palatable. I built some AM1 rigs a few months ago with Sempron 3850 1.3Ghz quad-core AM1 APUs, they are kind of slow running single-threaded apps like Firefox. For media decoding, they're alright.
The 5350 APU in this deal runs at 2.05Ghz (20.5 multi), and my understanding is that you can run them at up to 21 multi in the appropriate mobo, plus do a BCLK OC of around 5%.
I know that my laptop with an A6-6310 APU (quad-core small-core 1.8Ghz) is not really slow, it's reasonably snappy. It's one generation newer than the APU described in this deal, though.
Edit: For a case + PSU, may I suggest this one? I've built a few of these, they're decent:
http://www.directron.biz/wt02.html
Edit: I may have to un-recommend that case.
I left my AM1 Sempron 3850 rig, overclocked to 106 bus speed, on Windows Update (Win7), and went into the other room. The monitor went to sleep, and I figured it was just going to crunch away, until I got the list of available updates. I left my internet radio playing in my browser, along with a few tabs from this forum.
Well, came back a few hours later, PC didn't appear to be on. Clicked the mouse (ambiance lights were off), lights flashed and kind of flickered. Looked at PC, power LED was off, hit the power switch, and it booted, and there was a menu, "Start Windows Normally" was highlighted with a countdown timer. Obvious, it had failed to shut down or boot properly somehow.
So, not sure what happened.
I do remember, when I was sitting at it before, I started to smell a "warm electronics" smell. So I don't know if the PSU in this case is going already. It's barely used.
Edit: Hmm, I had "Sleep after 30 minutes" set in Power Options. I disabled that. But why didn't it wake from sleep when I clicked my mouse, and why wasn't the Power LED blinking to indicate it was in sleep mode? Sounds like the +5Vsb on the PSU may not be up to specs.
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