The Biostar A10N-8800E Motherboard Review: Carrizo in 2019?!
by Dr. Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on August 14, 2019 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- CPUs
- AMD
- Biostar
- Mini ITX
- HTPC
- Carrizo
- A10N-8800E
- FX-8800P
- Athlon 200GE
CPU Performance, Extended Tests
Because this is our first look at the FX-8800P, we also ran some of our more in-depth benchmarks to get a feel for the CPU. Again, the big comparison point here is the Athlon 200GE. Some of these benchmarks might not be the intended use-case for these CPUs, but this data is provided to give a sense of the performance for various tasks.
In some of these tests, there is up to a 2x performance moving up to the 200GE. Arguably not surprising, given the TDP difference and the architecture difference. It all depends on the end-user scenario whether that actually means much to them. If it's all about lower idle/semi-idle power, then the FX-8800P still wins.
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DanNeely - Thursday, August 15, 2019 - link
I looked on newegg, none of the <$100 atom boards appeared to have support for an m.2 ssd. I did see one with the obsolescent mSATA standard that would let you either avoid spinning rust entirely or build a baby nas without putting the OS on a data drive. OTOH I did at least see a model with 4 sata ports instead of only 2.LoneWolf15 - Monday, August 26, 2019 - link
Atom does not support this. However, mSATA is good enough for boot; you don't need massive I/O throughput, just a 128GB to boot the OS, and then use the SATA ports all for drives.bananaforscale - Thursday, August 15, 2019 - link
Not all Atoms have AES-NI tho. Excavator does.MASSAMKULABOX - Saturday, August 17, 2019 - link
I'm not sure this will really play that well against Ice-lake ? We need to see the 3200ge/3400ge and then the next gen APU with Zen3/Navi Small on board, about 2020 q1. THAT should be something to write home about. i7 perf with 1060 gfx in a single sock. Interesting to see stuff from the lower end tho.LoneWolf15 - Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - link
Most modern Atoms do have AES-NI. All current Gemini Lake Atoms support it, and all previous Apollo Lake and Braswell Atoms did as well. Intel is no longer segmenting that out, as it's highly useful for embedded scenarios like NAS and appliance processorsLoneWolf15 - Monday, August 26, 2019 - link
Probably use an LSI whitebox controller in the PCIe x16 slot for storage, or even a caching RAID controller.That said, I've seen far better Atom alternatives, including ones with dual-NICs that make them a better proposition in the ITX market.
bill.rookard - Thursday, August 15, 2019 - link
Remember, with built in onboard video, that PCI-E slot could easily hold a RAID or SATAx4 connector for more drives for a NAS build.... At that point 4x 6TB drives would be good for almost a 20TB server using ZFS RAIDZ1Martijn ter Haar - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
Independent computer stores that want to offer builds that can compete or even undercut the cheapest Office offerings from Dell and HP? Dell cheapest Inspiron is €379 with a Pentium G5400, 7200 rpm 1 TB HDD and 4 GB RAM.blppt - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
Can't even use it as a good HTPC---unless i'm mistaken the Radeon 7 doesn't do hardware 4k hevc full decode. And the 8800P would choke on most intense HEVC 4k vids.I *guess* you could add a cheapo 1030 or something to solve that problem, but why not start with a setup with integrated graphics from this century?
emn13 - Friday, August 16, 2019 - link
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/06/26/raspberry-...Like the max 7-8W much, much cheaper raspberry pi 4?