AMD A10N-8800E any good?

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#281286 9-Feb-2021 12:26

This mobo + CPU is up cheaper on mighty ape today. I have 2 aging early core i3 machines still that I use for workroom and garage PCs. They're ITX which limits upgrades.

Would this board be workable as a desktop or is it too anemic like some of the intel soldered on CPUs are?

I will have to get new ram too which puts it towards the upper limit I would want to spend on a "just there to use it occasionally" computer.

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#2650609 9-Feb-2021 19:37

How old are the Core I3 machines ?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14368/biostar-a10n-8800e-motherboard-review

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i3-2100T-vs-AMD-FX-6th-Gen-8800P

I would be looking for something a bit more powerful, maybe when the 11gen Intel launches with the Xe Graphics or find an old I5 on trademe - like this - https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=2964386944

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#2650620 9-Feb-2021 19:55

4th gen i3's. Bought with the intention of putting something faster in as finance allowed. They replaced core 2 quads and TBH no improvement at the time I couldn't attribute to ram and storage upgrades.

Edit: core 2 quad Obviuiosly. Anyway, ordered a couple since it will allow me to redistribute ram to other more worthy old machines when I un-deploy the old i3's.

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#2650714 9-Feb-2021 23:41

Disappointingly the FX-8800P is slower than the slowest 4th gen desktop Haswell i3, the 4130T. It's a laptop chip and performs comparable with a low end Ivy Bridge era desktop chip.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-FX-8800P-vs-AMD-Ryzen-3-3200G-vs-Intel-i3-3250T-vs-Intel-i3-4130T-vs-Intel-i3-4370/2567vs3497vs2732vs2035vs2351

It's fine for what it is but it's not for high performance roles. Computers haven't got much faster over the last decade so new chips often don't perform much better unless explicitly under a heavily multi-threaded workload.

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#2650720 10-Feb-2021 03:37

richms:

This mobo + CPU is up cheaper on mighty ape today. I have 2 aging early core i3 machines still that I use for workroom and garage PCs. They're ITX which limits upgrades.

Would this board be workable as a desktop or is it too anemic like some of the intel soldered on CPUs are?

I will have to get new ram too which puts it towards the upper limit I would want to spend on a "just there to use it occasionally" computer.

AnandTech reviewed it:

The Biostar A10N-8800E Motherboard Review: Carrizo in 2019?!

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#2650819 10-Feb-2021 09:43

K8Toledo:

AnandTech reviewed it:

The Biostar A10N-8800E Motherboard Review: Carrizo in 2019?!

Thanks what I said 😅