Athlon 5150 vs athlon 5350 vs sempron 3850

[SupermotoMX]

looking to build myself a HTPC for tv[using tuner card] / media playback and in the near future steam inhome streaming [1080p 60fps]

will be inside this board - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-603-AS


not looking to spend the earth but is the extra speed really needed for the extra price ?

not sure how much the gpu will change performance, there is ofc the inbuild gpu's but i have at home a geforce 210 lying in a draw, but could also consider getting a 610 or anything other low power and quiet [has to be half height single slot though]

 

[pandem0nium]

The sempron only supports 1333 ram, The GPU is the same in all and clock speed is the only other differentiator.

A 210 or 610 wouldn't offer anything over the igpu but you could add something like a 750ti for low to mid gaming natively.

I'm thinking of doing something similar in a tiny case and would probably go for the 5150 for value/performance.

 

[ghost.florian]

5150 should be enough for a simple HTPC. As long as you do not need the CPU horsepower it's not worth getting the 5350.
Save the extra £ and get a quieter fan for your case

 

[DragonQ]

I built an HTPC a few years ago. In the end it was a choice between an AMD APU or an Intel CPU + nVidia GPU. The latter was slightly more expensive but I went with it because of nVidia's custom resolutions feature, which lets you get very close to correct frame rates (23.976 fps is a tricky one for most GPUs, for example). The GPU was specifically designed for HTPCs (GT430) and is passively cooled, which is nice because you don't want a noisy PC in your living room.

Basically it depends what you want to do. CPU speed doesn't really matter, so a budget dual core is sufficient (I went with a Sandy Bridge Celeron for £30). If you want to use MadVR with really high settings for maximum quality, you'll need a high-end GPU. If you're happy with 1080i/p at up to 60 Hz with nothing fancy, any modern integrated GPU will be fine also.

 

[nails666]

I went for the 5350 in my HTPC in that same motherboard and it's performed fine for me. I mainly use XBMC/KODO to play raw blu-ray rips (30+ GB MKV files) over the network from my microserver and it does that without breaking a sweat. The iGPU is fine for outputing at proper framerates (24/25/50/60 etc) and it passes the full HD 7.1 audio streams to my AV receiver as well.
I did think of going for the 5150 but it was only £8 difference so I thought I might as well go for the higher one just in case I need need a little more power down the line.

 

[SupermotoMX]

thankyou for all your opinions, glad the integrated gpu should be more than enough after some careful consideration i have gone for the 5350 for the slight performance increase will most likely be needed sometime in the future

also went for a Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 GT to keep things nice and cool whilst being quiet, crammed inside the Silverstone Milo ML03. stoked to get this thing built up now

 

[pandem0nium]

thankyou for all your opinions, glad the integrated gpu should be more than enough after some careful consideration i have gone for the 5350 for the slight performance increase will most likely be needed sometime in the future

also went for a Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 GT to keep things nice and cool whilst being quiet, crammed inside the Silverstone Milo ML03. stoked to get this thing built up now

Great stuff. What Psu are you going to use? Are you going to get a pico PSU?

I favour the antec cases like the ISK110 / IS300 because it comes with the power brick / DC converter thing.

The other option would be to use the asrock board which has a power jack input on the motherboard.

 

[ghost.florian]

Don't forget to post some pictures !

 

[MasterOC]

running 5150 for TeamSpeak3 & FTP server ... runs all my dedicated gaming servers such as chivalry and assetto corsa etc without breaking a sweat . all in unison . gonna grab another and an asus board , clock the **** out of it for some cheap fun