AMD AM1 5350 gone?

Rainmaker · 31 Jul 2017 at 15:37

I've been mulling over building a NAS (using FreeNAS). I have 2TB of space on iCloud but their Windows software is total junk, and I'm loathe to use another service like Google Drive when iCloud is so nicely baked into my other devices (iPhone, MacBook Pro, iPads etc). My home PC is running out of storage (100GB free of 2TB), but rather than add more drives and keep running servers (Plex, NZBGet, Sickbeard etc) on my power-hungry desktop I thought a FreeNAS would bridge the gap nicely. I could run FreeNAS for general storage, but with jails/addons for Plex, NZBGet/Sab, Sickbeard, and even Owncloud.

I'd always had a soft spot for the AM1 chips, especially the Athlon 5350 APU. For £60 you could buy the CPU and a decent motherboard, add in some RAM and a cheap mATX power supply and case, and for about £100 all in you were away. Crucially for FreeNAS (and openvpn etc), the AM1 chip supported AES-NI and also EEC RAM, despite only costing £30!

Last night I was happily speccing up a mini build with a couple of 4TB WD Reds, but then realised OcUK (and others) no longer sell the AM1 chips.

I know Zen will bring newer APUs of this type at the end of this year / next year, but that's no use to me at this moment. I've looked at some of the other similar chips in the same price bracket, eg Kaveri, but they don't support AES-NI or EEC memory.

So does anyone know what happened to AM1, and whether there's a replacement class of chips with the same price/functionality - available now - that I have overlooked? Yes I could buy a 'better' CPU but something like an i3 is way more expensive, and the lower end Intel chips don't support AES-NI or EEC. The mighty little 5350 stood in a (cheap) class of its own.

TIA.

mistersprinkles · 31 Jul 2017 at 15:56

Sadly AM1 has gone the way of the dodo, and not the cool one from the Warner brothers cartoons. BTW it's ECC not EEC.

Rainmaker · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:03

mistersprinkles said:
Sadly AM1 has gone the way of the dodo, and not the cool one from the Warner brothers cartoons.

That's a shame.

No comparable chips available atm then?

BTW it's ECC not EEC.

Ironically, I know... lol. Call it a brain fart while posting under barrage from a 2 year old and a 1 year old.

We've been discussing Brexit today, so my brain **** its pants and transposed it lol.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:19

Look for the Sempron 3850.

Edit!!

Also does Bristol Ridge support ECC RAM??

Rainmaker · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:57

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Look for the Sempron 3850.

Edit!!

Also does Bristol Ridge support ECC RAM??

Thanks! It only has a 1.3GHz clock (versus 2GHz for the 5350) but it should be enough.

mistersprinkles · 31 Jul 2017 at 17:33

I believe the sempron is also a dual core. Basically it has a pitifully low level of performance. I'd steer clear. The 5350 was the only interesting AM1 cpu.

mmj_uk · 31 Jul 2017 at 17:37

They're probably using all of the cores for the consoles, I think they are the same chip just the consoles have 2 of them "glued together".

Telecaster · 31 Jul 2017 at 18:33

Rainmaker said:
I've been mulling over building a NAS (using FreeNAS). I have 2TB of space on iCloud but their Windows software is total junk, and I'm loathe to use another service like Google Drive when iCloud is so nicely baked into my other devices (iPhone, MacBook Pro, iPads etc). My home PC is running out of storage (100GB free of 2TB), but rather than add more drives and keep running servers (Plex, NZBGet, Sickbeard etc) on my power-hungry desktop I thought a FreeNAS would bridge the gap nicely. I could run FreeNAS for general storage, but with jails/addons for Plex, NZBGet/Sab, Sickbeard, and even Owncloud.

I'd always had a soft spot for the AM1 chips, especially the Athlon 5350 APU. For £60 you could buy the CPU and a decent motherboard, add in some RAM and a cheap mATX power supply and case, and for about £100 all in you were away. Crucially for FreeNAS (and openvpn etc), the AM1 chip supported AES-NI and also EEC RAM, despite only costing £30!

Last night I was happily speccing up a mini build with a couple of 4TB WD Reds, but then realised OcUK (and others) no longer sell the AM1 chips. I know Zen will bring newer APUs of this type at the end of this year / next year, but that's no use to me at this moment. I've looked at some of the other similar chips in the same price bracket, eg Kaveri, but they don't support AES-NI or EEC memory.

So does anyone know what happened to AM1, and whether there's a replacement class of chips with the same price/functionality - available now - that I have overlooked? Yes I could buy a 'better' CPU but something like an i3 is way more expensive, and the lower end Intel chips don't support AES-NI or EEC. The mighty little 5350 stood in a (cheap) class of its own.

TIA.

My 5350 build is for sale in the classifieds if you're interested, it's barely been used.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 31 Jul 2017 at 18:35

mistersprinkles said:
I believe the sempron is also a dual core. Basically it has a pitifully low level of performance. I'd steer clear. The 5350 was the only interesting AM1 cpu.

The 3850 is a quad core.

mistersprinkles · 31 Jul 2017 at 22:57

My bad.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 31 Jul 2017 at 23:02

mistersprinkles said:
My bad.

BTW,looking at your sig,does that mean you have this case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALgxTCEgqqw

Rainmaker · 31 Jul 2017 at 23:32

Telecaster said:
My 5350 build is for sale in the classifieds if you're interested, it's barely been used.

I was tempted but the sums don't add up for me mate, sorry. I'd have to get a different case (more than one hdd bay) as well as other stuff, so I'd effectively be buying it just for the CPU and mobo which puts them over what they cost new. Thanks anyway.

Andy Moore · 23 Dec 2017 at 16:20

Sadly it looks to be gone for good, cannot find any AM1 Athlon APU on the market now... only the crappy dual core Sempron 2650 at 1.45 GHz seems to be still available.
What a shame, such a great budget platform so short-lived, it might be some speculative stuff that has got it out of production. Too good for the competitors to catch up at such price range and perhaps even for AMD themselves.

jigger · 23 Dec 2017 at 23:00

Are you sure this config will support ECC? I know the AM2 Pro stuff will, but Id be surprised if you could build a ECC system for this kind of money. Very surprised TBH.

d_brennen · 23 Dec 2017 at 23:14

For backup/NAS duties even a low clocked dual wouldn't be too bad. CPU media decode in the fly on the other hand...

geordiejc · 24 Dec 2017 at 21:23

I own an and 5350 it's a crackin little cpu for 720/1080p playback.

It's in a tower at the moment I'm thinking of getting another silverstone ml05 case and an sfx psu.

chippy08 · 24 Dec 2017 at 22:24

I own a 5350 and the Asus itx board not in use now due to lack of sata connectors but yes it plays films well and uses very little electric.

Phixsator · 30 Dec 2017 at 20:55

got a 5150 with an itx board laying idle after my home server upgrade. Anything media center that i tried was doing fine on it and it overclocked pretty easily to 1800mhz without me even have to try. The only issues i ran into was trying to host any sort of dedicated game server where procedural generation was involved, like star bound , avorion or 7dtd. That could get a bit laggy but i feel thats understandable. Overall a fine little chip imho.

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Rainmaker said:
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