AM1 owners club

[ManofGod]

It's the fifth time an Asrock AM1 board fails me...

stock or overclocked?

 

[TheGuruStud]

The most sata ports any of these boards have is 4

On another note I am going to make one into a file server to replace my ancient seagate NAS (it has started making noise) who has a suggestion for a case the is reasonably small and can handle 4-6 3.5" HDD's?

Old post, I know, but I have seven drives, so I slapped in two 1x plain sata cards. Problem solved. I can even run the inhell dual gigabit network adapter at the same time. I don't know how that works being as there shouldn't be enough lanes, but it works.

 

[GoldenX]

stock or overclocked?

Stock, they don't offer OC options.
They refuse to power up, or to boot. If they don't power up, you need to remove the CPU and place it again, if they don't boot, you need to do a clear cmos.
On two them that worked permanently, on other two the problem repeats, the fifth one looks dead.

Also used some MSI ones, they just work.

 

[ManofGod]

Stock, they don't offer OC options.
They refuse to power up, or to boot. If they don't power up, you need to remove the CPU and place it again, if they don't boot, you need to do a clear cmos.
On two them that worked permanently, on other two the problem repeats, the fifth one looks dead.

Also used some MSI ones, they just work.

Well, this is the board I have so maybe this is why I have had no issues: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130759

 

[GoldenX]

Yeah, those are the only ones that gave me no problem. An Asus one had conectivity problems with it's USB 3 ports.

 

[cdawall]

It's the fifth time an Asrock AM1 board fails me...

Which board? I have three of the Asrock AM1-H's which all run pretty much 24/7, 2 of which are overclocked, none of which have had any issues.

Stock, they don't offer OC options.
They refuse to power up, or to boot. If they don't power up, you need to remove the CPU and place it again, if they don't boot, you need to do a clear cmos.
On two them that worked permanently, on other two the problem repeats, the fifth one looks dead.

Also used some MSI ones, they just work.

They offer OC options if you update the BIOS.

 

[GoldenX]

One is an AM1B-M, the others are AM1B-ITX.
The AM1B-M works fine for some time (some hours or a day) and then it doesn't boot anymore. Already tested the CPU in one of the others.
The ITX ones do what I posted earlier. Besides that, they work fine.

All of them are running Sempron 2650s.

 

[Melvis]

I so want to build one of these systems but I just dont know what id use it for lol

I found this and Im so tempted to buy it! http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/CPU/AMD_Socket_AM1/55387-SD3850JAHMBOX

 

[Toothless]

I so want to build one of these systems but I just dont know what id use it for lol

I found this and Im so tempted to buy it! http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/CPU/AMD_Socket_AM1/55387-SD3850JAHMBOX

Storage server, media center, run an old os for nostalgic gaming, you have choices. I run mine as a game bot host/voice chat rig with little gaming.

 

[cdawall]

One is an AM1B-M, the others are AM1B-ITX.
The AM1B-M works fine for some time (some hours or a day) and then it doesn't boot anymore. Already tested the CPU in one of the others.
The ITX ones do what I posted earlier. Besides that, they work fine.

All of them are running Sempron 2650s.

Must be the slight model difference, from what I could tell the only difference between the AM1B and AM1H is the legacy ports on the back and lack of DC in. Maybe its a PSU issue? Heavy ripple will cause all of the issues you described.

 

[GoldenX]

Mmm, it could very well be that. Gonna check it, thanks.

 

[Recca29]

I use mine as a daily driver. I upgraded the SSD from 120GB to a 480GB model and I'm quite happy with it, I can play <2005 games with good settings and even edit videos (Corel VideoStudio supports OpenCL). Being overclocked to 2.5Ghz helps a lot though. At stock settings I don't know how good it would be.

<2005 games. i was played dead-space 3 on it.

edit: @ Stock clocks

 

[TRWOV]

<2005 games. i was played dead-space 3 on it.

edit: @ Stock clocks

Wooo... even better. To tell the truth I haven't tried anything that requires GPUs better than an HD4650 (which I think is about on part with my OCed HD8400 IGP) but if you could play DS3 I guess I could try too

 

[GoldenX]

I'm pretty sure it can run MGSV with no problems (on reduced settings), heck I'm running it on a Celeron N3050.
The IGP is DX12 and Vulkan capable, should be a lot better than a DX10.1 GPU.

 

[TRWOV]

Well yeah, but it's only got 128 SPs. GCN SPs are around 65% more powerful than the old VLIW5 SPs (<HD6000 series) so by a rough calculation I assumed my HD8400 OCed to 720Mhz would be around on par with the HD4650 (320 VLIW5 SPs @ 600Mhz, 700Mhz DDR3 memory), maybe slightly less. Anyway, I'm quite amazed at how capable the little chip is.

 

[GoldenX]

Not counting compatibility.
Yeah, they truly are.
Imagine if Intel and Nvidia developed an APU similar to the AM1s, Skylake ULP Celeron with Pascal graphics...

 

[Melvis]

Im going to buy this case tonight

https://www.pccasegear.com/products...mini-itx-chassis-with-150w-80-plus-bronze-psu

 

[TRWOV]

I have that same case, just from another manufacturer with a different front panel. Pretty good case for an AM1 rig.

 

[Toothless]

Anyone pair their AM1 rig with a high end GPU? I'm tempted to try it.

 

[GoldenX]

I've tried a Sempron 2650 with my HD7750. Bottleneck, but it's just a dual core.

 

[Toothless]

I've tried a Sempron 2650 with my HD7750. Bottleneck, but it's just a dual core.

Of course an AM1 rig will bottleneck but like, I'm wondering if 1080p gaming is still doable.

 

[Flux]

Of course an AM1 rig will bottleneck but like, I'm wondering if 1080p gaming is still doable.

Here is a video I saw the other day where a guy paired it with a 380X and it runs Doom at 1080p on medium/high.

I have an AM1H with Athlon 5350 arriving either Friday or Monday and plan to try it with my 750 TI.

 

[Toothless]

Here is a video I saw the other day where a guy paired it with a 380X and it runs Doom at 1080p on medium/high.

I have an AM1H with Athlon 5350 arriving either Friday or Monday and plan to try it with my 750 TI.

I watch Jayz quite often and while yeah he used a 380x I'm tempted to try one of my 780's in it.

 

[GoldenX]

If Vulkan and DX12 prospere...

 

[TRWOV]

I'd say that a 5350/70 and an 270/370 would be a good match. Anything above would be bottlenecked by the CPU and PCIe 4x slot.