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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_Rain - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
BothArbie - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
Whatever this board *can* do, not being human it can't "opine". And even humans can't "opine to be".Rocket321 - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
It seems like the obvious thing to do here would be A) put a bunch of SATA on it, or B) put multiple NICs on it. A nice home nas / router / microserver. But as it is, it doesn't quite fit either niche.Haawser - Thursday, August 15, 2019 - link
I bought the A68N-5600 instead. It has an A10-4655M 'Trinity' (4C/6CUs) but also has 4x Sata ports instead of the M.2 slot. Seems to recognise and use DDR3-1600 without a problem. Makes for a very nice mini-PC that costs next to nothing. TBH I'm quite surprised how snappy it is in Windows 10 with a $20 64GB SSD boot drive. I had a dual core Atom mini-ITX before, and this is waaay faster. Like night and day.quadibloc - Thursday, August 15, 2019 - link
Looking at the photo, with the CPU in the center under a small ribbed heatsink with a fan on the top; except for the fact that the fan is rotated by 45 degrees, took me back to the days of my 486 builds, when CPUs were cooled that way, instead of by the elaborate coolers required for most of today's desktop processors.John_M - Saturday, September 14, 2019 - link
486s didn't have coolers - they just had bare ceramic packaging. The more elaborate AMD and Cyrix 486-compatible processors usually had passive heatsinks, but Pentiums were the first to be actively cooled.Oxford Guy - Friday, August 16, 2019 - link
For the price, Biostar should have included a better fan to support a BIOS switch to go between 35W and 15W.Oxford Guy - Friday, August 16, 2019 - link
Also, the latency settings are terrible for the RAM. Is there no way to tighten the timings via the BIOS?Oxford Guy - Friday, August 16, 2019 - link
I was able to run 16 GB of dual rank DDR3 2133 at 9-11-10 CR1 with an overclocked FX 8 core with full stability on a cheap motherboard. It seems truly unfortunate to witness a newer-generation memory have far worse performance on the roughly the same CPU architecture.vowif - Friday, August 16, 2019 - link
nice