AMD Athlon 5150 Kabini - cat, Jaguar or more fun?

[FlanK3r]

Im tetsing for review now Athlon 5150. This is from my point the best price/performance ration for AM1. Basic clock is 1600 MHz (top model 5350 has 2050 MHz, this different could be visible in practice, but 5150 has still OK performance). The RAM IMC support is 1600 MHz DDR3. Not bad, but you will see later. And iGPU has the core clock 600 MHz. For older oldschool games its OK. As Quake III. Quake IV, Counter Strike, Battlefield 2 or modern Torchlight.

New benchrig for small machine


And new HyperX memory Fure


But, what happens, if the right guy has the right motherboard? This motherboard is Asus AM1I-A.
Do not hotlink images - stulid.

BIOS is simply perfect for some fun.

This is teraser. 1600 MHz CPU and DDR3? No way...I wanna more... 1984 MHz at CPU and DDR3 the same! And still stock voltage of CPU




BIOS is overclockable, no problem for this great motherboard.


And Cinebench at stable settings:


Later coming more OC fun

 

[FlanK3r]

yes, now Im at performance of 5350 chip...And much higher in memory clock and iGPU clock . But again, this board is gold. MSI and ASRock or Gigabyte have not BCLK in OC menu...

 

[FlanK3r]

Now Im at 2270 MHz ...

 

[FlanK3r]

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)