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

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 ?

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 ?

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.

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