Question Llano users on win 10

[Zepp]

I have a soft spot for APU's and felt like finding a machine with AMD's first gen, Llano. I found a cheap Toshiba Satellite with an A6-3400M to use as a simple internet'n machine away from home.

Since the integrated GPU is Terascale 2 what is the best option for display drivers? let windows decide? grab whatever legacy driver AMD has on their site? I assume modern Radeon Settings would not be compatible.

I know linux would be a good option performance wise but I have never liked using linux. It is a last option if win10 doesn't agree with the little machine.

 

[Zepp]

Great!

Next step, use k10stat to set up the CPU as you want. Once you have stable settings, you can load it up on startup.

These chips can be undervolted nicely, some have a turbo mode that you can use to overclock some.

Nice I forgot about that program.

I also just found out that the socket is not soldered on these machines so there are a lot of options to swap http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket_FS1.html

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Set up like that, it was surprisingly snappy and ran quite cooler than before.

The K10.5 core isn't a bad performer, but it didn't do much more then 3GHz reliably. The extra 512KB L2 really helps things.

It was a decent swansong to the old K8 architecture all-round. Just not that successful.

 

[Yeroon]

My base overclocked 3850 easily got higher cpu scores than the 5800k and 6790k I played with after. (3870k didn't arrive till later).
Way overvolted from factory. 1.4ish, it ran 100% stable with a -0.2v offset. It was a lot of fun to learn how to OC on. Definitely fried the NB vrms on that itx board after a year though

 

[Zepp]

First real extensive test drive today and I'm really surprised how well this thing runs.

So to be clear, I bought this thing to replace a 2013 era Richland based Asus laptop which was on surf n stream duty. The thing has run hot and loud since the day I got it. I hoped this Llano machine would be at least a solid side grade, and so far it is. I have only heard the fans spin up when in BIOS. Kind of amazed actually. got the extra stick of RAM installed with no issue.