AMDAPU Athlon 5350 Quad Core Processor (Socket AM1, 2.05GHz, 2MB, 25W, Radeon 3, AD5350JAHMBOX, Advanced Vector Extensions, Virtualization Technology)

This APU lived up to all the hype. Cheap and low powered/cool running it is ideal for an HTPC build. The full build details are:Motherboard - ASRock AM1H-ITXCase - Silverstone SST-ML06BPSU - Leicke ULL 90wattsSSD - Kingston 120 GbsRAM - 4 Gb Kingston HyperX FuryWith the CPU fan speed set to 'Silent' in the BIOS of the motherboard, this set-up is completely silent and the CPU generally reaches 50 - 55 degs C. 1080p video is no problem and plays very smoothly. The O.S. installed is Linux Mint Cinnamon, though on reflexion perhaps the Mate variant might have been a better choice. In addition to use as an HTPC this APU could easily be used as a regular, everyday PC for browsing, emailing, playing videos, doing spreadsheets and other office functions. Compared to the Intel I3 box with 8 Gb RAM I built last year I feel the AMD package offers much better value for money (so long as extreme gaming/video encoding etc are not required).Edit on 24th May, 2017. I've used this APU for 9 months now in an HTPC set-up and have been completely happy with its performance! Playback/streaming is rock-solid and always smooth with no jerking/tearing that was sometimes suffered with the Raspberry Pi mk1. The 5350 seems to be out of production now, having been superseded by the AMD 5370 but if I ever need to build a new HTCP I will definitely go with the new version.

I absolutely love this cpu, underneath my yamaha 7.2 receiver in a MATIS case it is going, 25 watts of power consumption is amazing and thats at full load! intel need to learn from amd with their apus they are fantastic, average use is around 14W!with a dedicated graphics card it can handle any game, even with its own apu graphics its pretty darn good!You will only need an 80w psu for the whole system of course if you use a dedicated graphics card 450 to 500w is recommended.The maximum graphics card for this cpu is the nvidia gtx460 anything higher will be a bottleneck. But of course you can overclock these which is something you cant do with the intel j1900 chip on a board solutions.you can build a totally silent htpc with this, a very nice cpu indeed it never goes above 38 celciusI still cannot believe this little cpu with built in graphics can run the new tomb raider game at 720p smoothly, how awsome is that! this game is very demanding yet it runs well. it will even run at 1080p if you allocate 2gb of ram to the onboard graphics and lower the textures a little, amazing. Its really not designed for gaming at all but wow just wow. Can only imagine how good the high end apus are.This little cpu can play 4K video at a maximum bitrate of 20MBPS, however 1080P with 5.1 DTS audio is where it shines, if you are overclocking use the ASMEDIA sata ports not the AMD ones otherwise the drive wont get recognised at boot.You will see in my other reviews i bought this with a RAJINTEK MATIS case and ASRock motherboard, those two items bring out the best in this platform, totally awsome combination.

I rather like this little thing. It fitted nicely with the motherboard I purchased (AM1 socket,naturally).It has modest power with four cores, giving it fantastic everyday use. While it doesn't quite stand up to the larger, more powerful CPUs out there it is respectable in its own right and runs a computer nice and smoothly with barely a hiccup. It can take the strain of active browser based gaming, watching videos on youtube and running other background programs besides. Business computers should be jealous of this little item.

Used this to upgrade my 7 year old Zotac HTPC, coupled with a AM1H-ITX motherboard. Despite being 3-4 times faster than my old Intel ProDuo-based laptop at encoding x265 video, which itself was at least twice as fast as the integrated Intel quad-core Atom of the Zotac motherboard, Windoze only gives it a 4.9 rating - just marginally higher than it rated the Zotac! According to PC-Mark, the integrated graphics of the 5350 are between 3-5 times faster than that of the onboard Nvidia graphics of the Zotac - hence my scepticism.The one thing I'm unhappy about is the thermal readings. I don't know if this is down to the mobo or the 5350, but the readings are often times nonsensical. With an ambient temperature of 18-20degC, I often get readings of 1-5degC!!! Put the CPU under load and the temperature shoots up, maxing out at around 48degC. But within a few seconds of going from Max to min load, the temperature reading will plummet by 20-30degC - the real world doesn't operate like this! To add to the confusion, the motherboard's own BIOS temperature monitoring seems to measure correctly, it's just the half dozen or so applications available for doing this that seem to have problems!This in no way seems to affect performanace though. I've had a chequered history with AMD CPU's, this being my third Athlon. The other two had serious temperature-related stability problems, crashes being a normal occurrence. But these were of 2002-2004 vintage, so probably not a concern. Given the insanely high max operating temperature of the 5350 (90degC), coupled with the max (apparent!) temperatures of 48degC that I'm seeing, it should not be a problem.One other point. Although the 5350 has not much overhead as far as overclocking is concerned, a little latitude does exist, but I have failed miserably to exploit it. When I have tried increasing any of frequencies, even marginally, I am left with OS's that will not even boot - so I'm not sure what is going on there! The old Athlon's could be overclocked nearly to oblivion.But so far, so good. Seems a perfectly adequate processor for a HTPC, capable of playing 720p x265 (HEVC) videos with only 30-40% CPU load, or 1080p x265 @ 60-70%. The Intel quad-core Atom/Zotac/Nvidia setup would choke & die within a few seconds with 720p videos (never mind 1080p), when trying the same thing. The fact that it will encode them as well, and 3-4 times faster than I'm used to, is an added bonus!

this is not a i7 competitor.If you know what you are trying to accomplish with this............ it will surprise you.Its a quad core Kabini based and runs @ 2.05 GHz speed. for best performance add two ram sticks. believe me on 1366x768 settings you can Game with this comfortably say league of legends at 60 FPS at medium high settings, on full HD i got 35 FPS average on medium settings in league. you can play other games but have have to tone down the settings.This is a capable little processor and will chug along just fine for day to day task. its not a speed monster but extremely power efficient and will run on single battery inverter for hours.very pleased with amd and beats atoms and celeron motherboards hands down, you can add a discreet video card for boost too @ PCIe 4x speed.

A pesar de no ser el mejor tiene un buen rendimiento, cuenta con 4 núcleos y es apto para overclock, así se le podrá sacar un poco mas de potencia a este procesador.Las únicas desventajas es que si le quieres poner una tarjeta gráfica tienes que ser cuidadoso, ya que al ser un procesador de gama baja fácilmente puedes hacer cuello de botella con alguno de tus otros componentes, limitando así el potencial de tus componentes, aunque puede "solucionarse" haciéndole overclock pero aun así no aprovecharía todo el potencial si usas algún componente de gama alta en tu setupPara tareas básicas, algo exigentes y uno que otro juego con gráficos modestos ira mas que bien. La otra desventaja es que el ventilador incluido suena muchoLa tarjeta gráfica integrada esta bastante bien, no soportara gráficos detallados en juegos que lo requieran pero para juegos relativamente "ligeros" en el aspecto gráfico irán con un buen framerate y calidad decente.Un buen procesador pero limitado por sus características y que puede limitar a los demás componentes si no se elige bien.

Nice and reliable, if a bit old/underpowered. Hasn't died on me yet, and I've been pushing this thing harder than is really sane.

Habité des processeur AMD, celui-ci ne déroge pas à la règle.Les +:- tdp 25w, donc ne chauffe pas- 4 coeurs cadencés à 2.05 Ghz, largement suffisant pour du calcul, surf, bureautique- support ddr3 jusqu'à 1600 Mhz (en réalité, j'ai juste overclocké la ram en 1866 Mhz avec une carte mère Asus, le cpu fonctionne très bien à cette fréquence)- nouvelle plateforme, donc évolution possible- chipset graphique de bonne factureLes -:- ventirad: fixations pas pratique, taille minuscule comparée à d'autres ventirads, pas de custom pour de l' AM1 ( peut-être que ça viendra avec le temps)- encodage vidéo correct mais limité- toutes les Cartes Mères sont en ddr3 Single Channel. oubliez les barrettes qui fonctionnent par paire (Dual Channel). ceci dit, vous pourrez toujours mettre un kit de barrettes par paire, cela fonctionnera, mais les performances seront réduites.Conclusion:très bon rapport qualité/prix. pour un pc entrée de gamme (surf,bureautique,streaming).

Normalerweise schreibe ich nicht oft über gekaufte Produkte aber über dies Cpu muss man etwas schreibenIch benutze sie mit einen Asus AM1I-A Board und 2x4 GB Kingston Fury Ram (1600 MHz)Netzteil benutze ich das LC-Power LC420-12 80+ Bronze (420 Watt) (sehr leise) und eine Cruzial SSD CT240BX200SSD1 Festplatte mit Win 10 Pro.Ich habe mir den Arctic ACALP00006A Prozessorlüfter dazugekauft und zwei Noctua 120mm Gehäuselüfter.Verbaut ist alles in dem Thermaltake Versa H15 PC-Gehäuse.Ich habe mir noch einen anderen Noctua Lüfter mit 120mm dazugekauft und habe den statt dem Artic Prozessorlüfter getauscht,also war ein wenig Bastelarbeit nötig.Kurz nachgedacht und schon war eine Lösung gefunden,ich habe den mit Gummiringen und nen Mini Stück Doppelklebeband befestigt und das ganze hält ziemich gut und vor allem die Kühlleistung ist wirklich super.Im idle läuft der Noctua mit 250 Rpm bei 26 Grad und die Noctua Gehäuselüfter einer zieht die Luft unten ins Gehäuse der zweite bläst sie hinten oben wieder aus dem Gehäuse raus und das mit 300 Rpm pro Lüfter und man hört nichts,einfach Top.Mit Prime95 über eine Stunde laufen lassen der Cpu Lüfter läuft mit 674 Rpm und es bleibt auf 48 Grad noch dazu auf 2,5GHz übertaktet,die Gehäuselüfter laufen mit 537 Rpm(siehe Bild).Bilder von der Montage des Noctua Lüfter an den Artic Kühlkörper reiche ich noch nach.Man hört nichts,der Pc steht einen meter von mir weg unter dem Schreibtisch.Das ist jetzt die berühmte Notua Lüfter Qualität.Und das ganze braucht nur 18,30 Watt bei Vollauslastung was will man mehr.Zum Internetsurfen oder Office oder solche Dinge merke ich keinen Unterschied zu meinen zweit Pc mit einen i7 4790K,Asrock Fatal1ty Killer Z97 Board mit 32GB Ram 2133MHz.Ich kann die Cpu nur weiter empfehlen deshalb 5 Sterne