DDR3 Memory Scaling Performance With AMD's Athlon 5350

[dungeon]

Thanks for the info...

You should avoid go over much more than 105 because it will make VGA (if you use HDMI, no problem) and/or USB,etc. unstable....116 is a no go....but you can try to push it up to 107....some MoBos/APUs can go up to 107 w/o problems...

I've tried that starting with 106 it is not more stable , 105 is just fine used it half a day now .

[AJSB]

I've tried that starting with 106 it is not more stable , 105 is just fine used it half a day now .

Did you check also the APU multiplier to see if it can be bumped up ?

Before try to do it, pull back base clock again to 100...

[dungeon]

PS In the mITX ASUS Mobo besides base APU clock , you can adjust APU `Multiplier`...check if also exists in your MoBo that option...*if* exists and allows more than 20.5 , you can bump CPU and GPU frequencies...go in small steps and makes tests and check temps...

Yep APU Multiplier is there and can be set to more then 20.5. I setted it now to 21.0 and that is 50 MHz more. Together with the APU Frequency setted to 105, i running now at 2206 MHz

[curaga]

Lats I bought RAM (three weeks ago), for 4gb sticks, 1600MHz was the cheapest speed. Several euros below 1066 and 800, so not even the price argument seems to hold

[dungeon]

Yep APU Multiplier is there and can be set to more then 20.5. I setted it now to 21.0 and that is 50 MHz more. Together with the APU Frequency setted to 105, i running now at 2206 MHz

Benchmarking Openarena 0.8.8 @ 1024x768 now to see what is gain from this OC and yay these two makes a good performance difference

Default = @ 2050 MHz 60.5 fps

21.0 multiplier and 105 freq = @ 2206 MHz 88.5 fps

[curaga]

I can't help but be curious (even though the chips appear to be in different classes) how Kaveri and Kabini stack up against each other.

I have not seen benchmarks out there at all anywhere on this. Maybe I just missed them. If not, might make a good Phoronix article.

SemiAccurate compared A10-7850k kaveri vs the 5350 kabini:

http://semiaccurate.com/2014/04/09/amd-launches-first-system-socket-soc-kabini/

[dungeon]

Benchmarking Openarena 0.8.8 @ 1024x768 now to see what is gain from this OC and yay these two makes a good performance difference

Default = @ 2050 MHz 60.5 fps

21.0 multiplier and 105 freq = @ 2206 MHz 88.5 fps

I don't expected this @ 1920x1080 too , but this APU has excelent overclocked performance

Default = @ 2050 MHz 35.7 fps

21.0 multiplier and 105 freq = @ 2206 MHz 56.7 fps

With HyperZ enabled:

Default = @ 2050 MHz 56.7 fps

21.0 multiplier and 105 freq = @ 2206 MHz 81.2 fps

[dungeon]

With HyperZ enabled:

Default = @ 2050 MHz 56.7 fps

21.0 multiplier and 105 freq = @ 2206 MHz 81.2 fps

Much of performance comes from just +0.5 multiplier adjustment , at default 2050 MHz and just set multiplier from 20.5 to 21.0 = 76.9 fps

Michael maybe also want to slightly overclock his Athlon 5350 .

[dungeon]

AJSB asks: yes it runs with the same temperature , but one sad thing is it just allows 21.0 multiplier as maximum .

So that is it from me about overcloking this athlon i think i couldn't gain more from this hardware an memory , but even that makes excelant difference 20.05>21.0 multiplier and 100>105 freq all stable for me

[dungeon]

I don't expected this @ 1920x1080 too , but this APU has excelent overclocked performance

Default = @ 2050 MHz 35.7 fps

21.0 multiplier and 105 freq = @ 2206 MHz 56.7 fps

With HyperZ enabled:

Default = @ 2050 MHz 56.7 fps

21.0 multiplier and 105 freq = @ 2206 MHz 81.2 fps

Nah sorry , must point out i overlooked that i run 0.8.5 actually and compared it with results of 0.8.8 . So there is no actually any notable gain in games, stable overclock is only 150MHz plus for me that is plus 7% - all in all it is not really something to worry about if your board doesn't have it .