Overclocking Athlon 5150 with Asus board

So, Im done with little baby Kabini and Asus AM1-I A. Great board and good small CPU

How is it stable? I got stable settings at 132 MHz BCLK!
The power consumption in load is only 5 W higher than with stock settings

. Lets go to OC stable results:

AIDA AES:

AIDA Memory-nice improvement

Cinebench R15

Cinebench R11.5

Cinebench R10

Winrar, wow, over 2000 KB/s!

3D Mark11 Performance test

And now some fun with benchmarks (not fully stable PC in OCCT)
PiFast

Wprime 1024M

Cinebench R15 at 2303 MHz!

Cinebench R11.5 at 2303 MHz

Superpi 2303 MHz

Max clock - 2367 MHz (with +1 Mhz BCLK I had issues with SATA/graphics outputs)

 

How did you get those results??? How come people were saying there was a ahci bug issue going on? Any insight flanker?

What's your max stable OC? With ram, cpu, video, and bclk?

 

This can handle League of Legends (sorry, I know you play DoTa 2) at like 30fps to 25fps in fights and 60fps on medium.

But LoL does not scale threads properly so it only uses two cores. I think DOTA 2 is much better in this regard. If you have any other requests, like me know. I dual boot Gentoo and Windows 7 on this thing so I can get good comparisons.

I pulled about 13:00 in Blender BMW benchmark in Gentoo and my friend's core i7 SB chip that averaged 2.5ghz in the run pulled in around 7:15 in Windows.

The chip is rather strong. It wouldn't set the world on fire but I am happy with it.

Stock A4-5000 frequency is 1.5ghz too, btw. I can hop into Windows and do some benching and stuff. Notebookcheck puts HD 8330 (what's in A4-5000) at about high end HD 4000 Intel graphics performance.

 

The right board...No ASRock, no MSI, no Gigabyte...You need Asus AM1-I A and classic HDD disk. Max full stable settings is 132 MHz at BCLK, so 2112 MHz at CPU and 2112 MHz DRAM (with better RAM cant donw the divider)!

Quake III Arena 1600x1200, full details+trilinear is at stock 156 FPS average. With OC I got 206 FPS

 

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Originally Posted by sdlvx

This can handle League of Legends (sorry, I know you play DoTa 2) at like 30fps to 25fps in fights and 60fps on medium.

But LoL does not scale threads properly so it only uses two cores. I think DOTA 2 is much better in this regard. If you have any other requests, like me know. I dual boot Gentoo and Windows 7 on this thing so I can get good comparisons.

I pulled about 13:00 in Blender BMW benchmark in Gentoo and my friend's core i7 SB chip that averaged 2.5ghz in the run pulled in around 7:15 in Windows.

The chip is rather strong. It wouldn't set the world on fire but I am happy with it.

Stock A4-5000 frequency is 1.5ghz too, btw. I can hop into Windows and do some benching and stuff. Notebookcheck puts HD 8330 (what's in A4-5000) at about high end HD 4000 Intel graphics performance.

Well thanks for letting me know how LoL works... If you happen to get bored, you could always try out Dota 2 haha.

Also, Flank3r, that is some great information! Good to know these can overclock, and it looks like you got some good results from it!

 

welcome

. I would like test in future 5350 Athlon.

 

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Originally Posted by FlanK3r

welcome

. I would like test in future 5350 Athlon.

Me to I would love to try a 5350 but am waiting for Gigabyte to release a Micro Itx Motherboard before I commit to buying one of these.
I wonder if its possible to power these with a 150-160w Pico Psu?? Are there any driver issue's with running these on Ubuntu??

 

Full version of review with some video playing, older games etc

http://pctuning.tyden.cz/hardware/procesory-pameti/29712-nova-platforma-amd-am1-athlon-x4-5150-a-deska-asus-am1i-a

 

I do not have any of the Kabini models, Unfortunately.

It's nice to see one of the boards supports OC, maybe I have to buy one of them now.

I would "guess" the AHCI bug is still present in Kabini, as AMD has probably reused the setup from the FM sockets and Phoronix had trouble getting past 105 MHz bclk.

Do we have a member than can test with and without AHCI ?

 

Yes, I have OS with IDe now at Kaveri. But not time to test it yet....Now Im busy with Haswell and boards.

 

What video output connector are you using ? VGA, HDMI or DVI-D ?

If not VGA, can you test using VGA connector to know how far it can go above 105 and if it can also reach 132 ?

TIA,
AJSB

 

I used DVI output at motherboard (but HDMI to DVI cable)

 

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Originally Posted by FlanK3r

I used DVI output at motherboard (but HDMI to DVI cable)

Thanks for the info !

Any chance to make a test with VGA at 132 BCLK ?

BTW, what you mean with "Classic HDD" ?
Are you using a SATA 2 HDD ?
Can you tell us what model of HDD are you using ?

TIA,
AJSB

 

I built a small system with a 5350 and an Asrock AM1H-ITX mobo. Its in a Cooler Master Elite 110. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 as I'd like to avoid the microsoft tax. I want to use this as a HTPC and am having trouble with the HDMI sound output when streaming. I've installed the MS Silverlight work around through Pipeline and while I do get video playback, the sound is choppy.

The choppy sound seems to only occur with the HDMI and streaming.

The sound was choppy on all three of the sites I use (Netflix,Amazon, and Crunchyroll), but I was able to fix the Crunchyroll playback by disabling one of the chrome plug-ins for flash. MP3's play fine through the HDMI to my TV as well. I've done about a dozen searches looking for a fix, but haven't found any so far. I am a total newb at ubuntu, but I understan how to use the terminal. Has anyone else experienced problems with HDMI sound?

I will be trying out the optical out of the board as well to see if it is affected as soon as I can locate a spare toslink cable.

 

I've built the same system , 8gigs of 1600 ram, running windows 8.1. The only video problems I have is on iTunes, my test for it is using tekzilla HD podcast for video on iTunes. MPC with Lav filters plays flawless. I also have a USB ATI 750 TV tuner hooked up to it, that plays flawless as well. Running HDMI thru a Yamaha receiver, perfect play back on Netflix as well. I would recommend 8 gigs of ram, and set in the bios the max allowed, 2 gigs of shared I believe. I have a 2TB drive hooked up to my Linksys 1900 AC router, and playback from there is perfect as well.. I noticed that PC Perspective had a article up last week , running a 750ti with the AM1 system, their gaming was impressive even with that card running at 1/4 bandwidth. All in all agreat cheap build for me as a media pc. Also Plex media server plays perfect on it as well.

 

I have only 4gb of ram, and shared vram is set to 1gb, I'm trying to figure out if my issue is hardware or software. I'm willing to get windows on this machine, but I was hoping have more headroom by avoiding a more resource hungry OS.

 

Actually, windows 8.1 is really optimized compared to windows 7. If you get all the latest updates, including, the spring update, it is now better suited for a desktop than a tablet. Also make sure you download the new better driver for APU from AMD's website.

 

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Originally Posted by Jericho941

I built a small system with a 5350 and an Asrock AM1H-ITX mobo. Its in a Cooler Master Elite 110. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 as I'd like to avoid the microsoft tax. I want to use this as a HTPC and am having trouble with the HDMI sound output when streaming. I've installed the MS Silverlight work around through Pipeline and while I do get video playback, the sound is choppy.

The choppy sound seems to only occur with the HDMI and streaming.

The sound was choppy on all three of the sites I use (Netflix,Amazon, and Crunchyroll), but I was able to fix the Crunchyroll playback by disabling one of the chrome plug-ins for flash. MP3's play fine through the HDMI to my TV as well. I've done about a dozen searches looking for a fix, but haven't found any so far. I am a total newb at ubuntu, but I understan how to use the terminal. Has anyone else experienced problems with HDMI sound?

I will be trying out the optical out of the board as well to see if it is affected as soon as I can locate a spare toslink cable.

Its choppy because you installed the native Ubuntu drivers instead of downloading and installing the correct beta drivers for your hardware.
You'll have to google it and find beta video drivers from AMD for Ubuntu. Its there you just have to look. I have run across others who fixed this same issue.

 

I ran searches for a fix over and over, and didn't find a solution, using the open source drivers, using the new amd drivers, re-installing the Ubuntu OS, re-installing the Wine-Silverlight. I couldn't get it to stream cleanly on ubuntu. I didnt't try going to the v13 ubutu yet, but I bought a retail copy of Win 8.1 and it is running just fine with the microsoft OS. Thanks for the help, though.

 

I have to use a hdd to pass 105bulk instead of SSD? My 5350 can not go above 105mhz. please advise

 

Can anyone confirm if Steam in home streaming works with this system? I would like to build a system, but I cannot commit until someone confirms this.

 

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Originally Posted by Jericho941

I ran searches for a fix over and over, and didn't find a solution, using the open source drivers, using the new amd drivers, re-installing the Ubuntu OS, re-installing the Wine-Silverlight. I couldn't get it to stream cleanly on ubuntu. I didnt't try going to the v13 ubutu yet, but I bought a retail copy of Win 8.1 and it is running just fine with the microsoft OS. Thanks for the help, though.

Do you still have Ubuntu installed? You might want to try looking into stopping pulseaudio with "pasuspender" and then running WINE for silverlight from the terminal emulator by typing

Code:

WINENOPULSE=1 (code to launch silverlight or browser or whatever)

I had HDMI working just fine with Pulseaudio and MPV on my x140e but it was connected to a TV and Pulseaudio had issues switching default audio device to HDMI.

Pulseaudio is trash. I don't even have it installed on this machine because ALSA works just fine and Pulseaudio loves to randomly blast applications at ear piercing volumes. On my laptop, it also loves to think that I have headphones plugged in every time I start it up (plugging in headphones and then unplugging them used to work after reboot but it stopped now). It drives me nuts.

Pulseaudio is a part of lenart poetering cancer that invades the GNU/Linux system and it's difficult to escape. I can get away from it by running Gentoo and compiling my entire OS and every program to not use Pulseaudio but it's difficult and the A4-5000 I have takes some time to compile linux kernel + system updates + full KDE environment.

But to be fair, I had Gentoo on my Core 2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66ghz and A4-5000 mauls it in performance

But I would suggest to you to try and different distribution or to disable pulseaudio. You might also have some luck by playing with "paprefs" an "pavumeter" (you can launch them from the terminal emulator).

Pulse is trash though. Poetering is well known for causing chaos with whatever he touches. The only people who disagree were the people who were not around when he came up with Pulseaudio and the ensuing nightmare he unleased upon the GNU/Linux community.

 

Athlon 5350 Kabini - Hiya can anyone tell me if they used a thermal pad or paste?

building one tomorrow - cheers

curious to know the difference

 

They use a grey paste on the bottom of there heat sink like they have always done on every one of there other heat sinks from as far back as I can remember.

 

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Originally Posted by Jericho941

I ran searches for a fix over and over, and didn't find a solution, using the open source drivers, using the new amd drivers, re-installing the Ubuntu OS, re-installing the Wine-Silverlight. I couldn't get it to stream cleanly on ubuntu. I didnt't try going to the v13 ubutu yet, but I bought a retail copy of Win 8.1 and it is running just fine with the microsoft OS. Thanks for the help, though.

You need to install the newest version of Ubuntu 14.04 64Bit LTS. This is what I installed on my setup on a USB 3.0 Flash Drive and everything works perfectly just as if I had installed it onto a SSD. After Install and rebooted into desktop try opening a terminal and type "sudo apt-get update" with out the quotes and press enter and type your password and press enter. when finished then type "sudo apt-get upgrade" again with out the quotes and press enter and type your pass word and press enter again and this should be everything you need to be running like you want it to.
If you get stuck come back and I will help you figure out what your doing wrong.