Monday, February 13th 2017
Biostar Intros the A6N-5100 "Kabini" Motherboard
Biostar introduced the A6N-5100 mini-ITX motherboard. A slight upgrade over the company's A6N-5000 from two years ago, the new board integrates AMD A4-5100 APU based on the "Kabini" silicon, which has the chops to outperform Intel's Celeron "Braswell" processors. The A4-5100 integrates a quad-core CPU ticking at 1.60 GHz, and AMD Radeon GCN graphics. The board features two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots, supporting up to 16 GB of memory, one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot, two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI display output, and storage connectivity that includes two SATA 6 Gb/s ports. The company didn't reveal pricing.
Source:
FanlessTech
27 Comments on Biostar Intros the A6N-5100 "Kabini" Motherboard
I've been dealing with SoC systems from both Red and Blue camps for awhile now, and none are adequate for any gaming (Except maybe Pentium N3700 or J2900).
I recently had a customer, who switched his granpa's platform from A4-5000 SoC board to an older dual-core Celeron G530 because that APU was not only lacking performance for watching HD videos on youtube (w/o hardware acceleration), but also capping a low-end GT740 while playing games(WoT and Silent Hunter 5 are the only ones his granpa plays).
Another thing I would want to see in that review you posted, is a comparison for lower settings, cause there is no point in running, let's say, Crysis 3 at Ultra settings on GTX750Ti and comparing two CPUs in GPU-capped environment.
I mean, besides simple benchmarking there is no reason in running games at 15FPS. If settings were lower, we would've definitely seen an exact same picture: a high-end desktop CPU having twice the potential of a low-end CPU.
DX12 won't change much either.
Productivity, on the other hand, is excellent on those systems. Even the lowest of the low E1-2500 can easily run Windows 10, do spreadsheets and web browsing, play FHD videos etc. And all of that is in a small, simple and tidy 15W package.
I even like to fix Kabini laptops, because they are so super-simple.