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 - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
page 4: "Comparing $88 vs $112 is an important point here - if you are tied for cash, you might go with the $88 option. But what performance uplift do you get from an additional $14?" That's $24 not 414.sing_electric - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
And it continues through the next page. It means you're looking at 27% more price, and that's roughly fair given the performance differences seen. Both could be good buys depending on where you want to spend your cash on the build. (I kind of love planning REALLY cheap builds since the low budget makes you really work at trade offs - the $24 difference is a 120GB SSD or 4GB stick of RAM, for example. It's like a haiku, where you really need to strip things down to what matters.)The_Assimilator - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
"...Biostar believes there is a new market out there for mobile-class gaming machines"There is, but not for gaming machines that suck.
JWade - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
I think it would make for a good little multi media pc, its itx with an m.2 slot. can have a good little media player for under $200. the 200GE is with a micro atx board and is quite a bit bigger. when ever Newegg gets around to selling it, I will definitely buy one for the size its great I thinkDug - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
"if you are tied for cash, you might go with the $88 option"If you are that tied for cash you might consider buying food instead of buying new computer parts.
sing_electric - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
Fair, but there's always marginal cases where you just want something under a certain price. Say you're outfitting a community center or something with computers, the $24 you save might be significant when you look at the # of units you need. There's always ways to spend more money for better performance, but for a lot of applications, the speed difference might not be noticeable.Plus, within any budget, there's smart and dumb ways to spend your money - the price difference between these is basically enough to get you a 120GB SSD at today's prices, for example, or go from 1 4GB stick of RAM to 2.
Tams80 - Thursday, August 15, 2019 - link
You can be tied for cash within a budget. If you have a budget for a computer, you almost certainly have budgets for food, utilities, transport, etc. So by not buying a cheap computer, you end up with possibly a few nicer meals but no computer.digitalgriffin - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
Do a search in article for (insert model here) for the Audio Driver.Also listing the HDMI version would be critical to those looking to use this as a Media Server. One would hope it's HDMI 2.0 at least.
sandtitz - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
As stated in the article:Realtek ALC887
HDMI 1.4
Flunk - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
Carrizo doesn't support HDMI 2, you need to go newer.