Biostar Intros the A6N-5100 "Kabini" Motherboard

[MnkyBrs]

not really, unless you like to play NES, Sega or Wii via emulators, or Steam indie crapware. CPU is way too weak.
Perfect for HTPC/Streaming. Or, as mentioned before, fully functional NAS with hardware RAID (most boards of this class only have PCIe x1 slot, which limits it to x2 SATA from chipset and 2-4 more with some limited software RAID functionality).
Even older Q5000 could handle 4K playback flawlessly.

I actually have an AsRock QC5000-ITX somewhere in the donor pile... wondering if I should order a replacement CPU from china, cause N3150 is not enough for me anymore...

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Gener...rm-and-Athlon-5350-GTX-750-Ti-1080p-under-450

Not exactly. It's playable.

 

[john_]

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Gener...rm-and-Athlon-5350-GTX-750-Ti-1080p-under-450

Not exactly. It's playable.

And probably with DirectX 12 things are even better.

 

[silentbogo]

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Gener...rm-and-Athlon-5350-GTX-750-Ti-1080p-under-450

Not exactly. It's playable.

Don't forget that A4-5100 is almost 25% slower than Athlon 5350 in this review (hence the rated TDP is 15W vs 25W).
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.