AMD Kabini Athlon 5350 review and overclocking
I finished my new AMD Kabini Athlon 5350 build yesterday. Here are the specs:
- AMD Kabini Athlon 5350 at 2.1GHz (overclocked from 2.05GHz)
- Stock cooler
- 4GB Kingston Blu DDR3 memory
- 64GB Lenovo SSD
- MSI AM1I mini-itx motherboard
- Mini-itx case
- Windows 7
So far I am impressed with the system. It boots in < 10 seconds and is very responsive.
CPU OC screenshots:
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- Adjust CPU Ratio: 21
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- Athlon 5350 at 2.1GHz (100MHz x 21 CPU ratio)
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- MSI AM1I multiplier selection x21 🙂
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-kabini-am1-athlon-5350-apu-fs1b-review-winning-sub-60/12/
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1390-page5.html
http://www.overclock.net/t/1480711/various-socket-am1-kabini-apus
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2377334
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7933/the-desktop-kabini-review-part-1-athlon-5350-am1
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-5350-am1-platform-review,3801-9.html
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Hello,
I realy like your review.
Can you tell if it’s possible to alter (raise or lower) the fsb speed on the msi bios?
It looks like it’s running at 21x100mhz…. i’ve seen people running like 120×20.5 etc…. but no one ever sais what board they were using….
Can you help me out?
Hey Sebastian, sorry for the late reply! On the MSI AM1I, the BIOS does allow some FSB/multiplier adjustments but the headroom is pretty limited since Kabini was not designed as an enthusiast OC platform. I got a modest bump (to 2.1GHz from 2.05GHz) but I did not experiment with raising the base clock to 120MHz. I can’t confirm whether 120MHz base works on the MSI board specifically since I didn’t test it that way.