Which AM1 Board do you use ?

chippy08 · 29 Apr 2015 at 13:56

Just about to order a Different Am1 board to try but was wondering which other people are using out of the these 4 Mini itx boards ?

Asus AM1I-A

MSI AM1I

ASRock AM1H-ITX

ASRock AM1B-ITX

MasterOC · 29 Apr 2015 at 16:19

apparently the AM1 asus allows overclocking , my current gigabyte board dosnt. id try the asus board just for that

Legion · 29 Apr 2015 at 18:33

I have the ASRock AM1H-ITX with an Athlon 5350 in my bedroom HTPC.
The deal clencher for me was 4 sata (the only mITX AM1 board with 4) and being able to power it with a dirt cheap 60w Laptop charger.

chippy08 · 29 Apr 2015 at 19:49

Legion said:
I have the ASRock AM1H-ITX with an Athlon 5350 in my bedroom HTPC.
The deal clencher for me was 4 sata (the only mITX AM1 board with 4) and being able to power it with a dirt cheap 60w Laptop charger.

Same Board i use now what dirt cheap Laptop charger do you use Model number ?

Legion · 30 Apr 2015 at 13:16

chippy08 said:
Model number ?

19000342CT

chippy08 · 30 Apr 2015 at 14:22

Legion said:
19000342CT

Thanks just ordered

chippy08 · 2 May 2015 at 12:40

Legion said:
19000342CT

Have you updated to the new bios 1.50 Modify BFG function what ever that is ?

stree · 3 May 2015 at 18:54

AM1H itx with 5350 and MSI AM1l with 5150, just sold an MSI AM1 with a Sempron dual core.
Laptop charger on the AM1H and Picos on the others.
Might put a Pico on the H because it looks like the onboard sata power only handles 2 x low power sata devices and I may want to have 2 x ssd and an optical...............I think that would have to be pico powered.
Think I prefer the ASrock boards, also running an ASRock H97M ITX with a Pentium G3258k.............

chippy08 · 3 May 2015 at 19:04

stree said:
AM1H itx with 5350 and MSI AM1l with 5150, just sold an MSI AM1 with a Sempron dual core.
Laptop charger on the AM1H and Picos on the others.
Might put a Pico on the H because it looks like the onboard sata power only handles 2 x low power sata devices and I may want to have 2 x ssd and an optical...............I think that would have to be pico powered.
Think I prefer the ASrock boards, also running an ASRock H97M ITX with a Pentium G3258k.............

Which do you prefer as an HTPC the Am1 or the Pentium G3258k ?

Also my brother in law uses the AM1H with 65 watt lappy charger with 1 ssd 1 Hard drive Mechanical and an optical drive no problems.

stree · 3 May 2015 at 19:58

Chippy, I want to run 1 x ssd 1 x hdd plus maybe another hdd and/or optical drive.... enough sata ports but not going to happen with the laptop supply.....
As for which for HTPC? not much in it.................APU has the edge over intel graphics but the Am1 is practically silent and very cool whereas the 3258 is much higher power and needs more involved cpu cooling.....S o noise can be more of an issue.All mine run 24-7.
The 3258 is the current HTPC but when the 5350 is finished that will likely be the HTPC and the pentium will be a general SOHO machine. The 5150box is just because I want to see what It can do.......5350 and 5150 will be custom cases, one oak and one perspex.
As for overclocking an AM!. first what , really, is the point? and second, the chipset is intentionally very modest and minimum so I doubt it is very robust.........Horses for courses..........If I wanted to clock an itx ( I know it wasn`t you that mentioned it but might as well comment here ) it would be the 3258 and I would swap the H MB for a Z series.........But to be honest, for SOHO and HTPC, what is to be gained from clocking apart from heat, power draw and potential glitches, instability and shortened chipset and CPU life if not done optimally.....
None of my boxes are for gaming so clocking is pointless for me..

vanandjuanunited · 3 May 2015 at 20:09

Legion said:
I have the ASRock AM1H-ITX with an Athlon 5350 in my bedroom HTPC.
The deal clencher for me was 4 sata (the only mITX AM1 board with 4) and being able to power it with a dirt cheap 60w Laptop charger.

Same as me.

Motherboard and chip plus
2 x 2 TB HDDs
1 x SSD 120Gb
SLim line BR drive

All powered by a 65 w pico psu

longplay · 4 May 2015 at 16:45

Not Mini-ITX, but I have a GA-AM1M-S2H, which is Micro-ATX.

The reason is so I could add a SATA expansion card and run six devices (Blu-ray drive plus HDDs) for my HTPC.

All runs off a PicoPSU with a lot of SATA/Molex splitters.

CaneyJ · 6 May 2015 at 20:03

FYI the latest AM1 ASRock Bios updates also allow overclocking but have less voltage boost ability than the ASUS boards but should still go to about 2.5Ghz. Might buy an ASUS board with a EVGA GTX750Ti Superclocked and try out a power-sipping quad cored gaming rig build.

Buffalo2102 · 6 May 2015 at 21:02

I have the Asrock AM1B-ITX (also has 4 x SATA ports) and a 5350. It's my web server/NAS/media server etc.. It's been solid as a rock for me. I've no requirement for overclocking though.

chippy08 · 7 May 2015 at 14:23

CaneyJ said:
FYI the latest AM1 ASRock Bios updates also allow overclocking but have less voltage boost ability than the ASUS boards but should still go to about 2.5Ghz. Might buy an ASUS board with a EVGA GTX750Ti Superclocked and try out a power-sipping quad cored gaming rig build.

Have you tired the auto overclock as i tried it last night and today and my back up drive disappears ?
I have replaced cable checked power plug and never had this problem until i tried the overclock on Bios 1.50

passey89 · 9 May 2015 at 09:32

MSI AM1I just setup as of yesterday. Really liking the temps on theses am1's though mine idle was only 9C.