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To test the Fusion platform today, we are using a wide selection of real world and synthetic tests, clearly labelled. If you are only interested in video quality and hardware performance we advise you to shift forward in the review to the real world and image quality sections.
We also felt it would be interesting to compare some of our findings against the Intel Atom platform, in the shape of the 1.8GHz D525 processor. We have also included results from a previous generation AMD Turion 64 X2 L510 clocked at 1.6ghz.
As we have tested the reference clocked E350 before, today we are showing performance gains in our maximum overclocked state (1.88ghz).
Asus E35M1-I Deluxe system build:
CPU/GPU: AMD Zacate APU – E350 (HD6310 graphics) @ 1.88ghz
Motherboard: Asus E35M1-I Deluxe Motherboard
Chassis: Thermaltake Armor A30
Memory: Corsair Dominator DDR3 (4GB)
Hard Drive: Samsung 3.5 inch 2TB
Power Supply: Thermaltake 550W Unit (will be used for discrete graphics solutions in part 2).
Supplemental Hardware:
Solid State: Kingston Hyper Max 3.0 x 2
Optical: Asus USB 2.0 BluRay Drive
Monitors: Sharp 50 inch 1080p Aquos LCD TV, LaCie 730 (IQ testing) and Dell U2410
Comparison processors:
Atom D525 @ 1.8ghz
Turion X64 X2 L510 @ 1.6ghz
Software:
Windows 7 64 Bit
Aida 64
SiSoft Sandra
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
Cyberlink Media Espresso
Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra V10
3Dmark Vantage
HQV Benchmark V 2.0
Left4Dead
Resident Evil 5
Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Keithley Integra unit
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp
Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter
Kill A Watt Meter
All results are gained from multiple test runs to ensure any abnormalities are removed before publication.
What a great looking case. much better than the element Q. looks like a robotic monster from the future with all the armor panels. awesome.
Asus, well not much to say about them, always brilliant. great review thanks for the fusion stuff.
christ, please stop reviewing this fusion kit, I just got married and can’t play with toys anymore 🙁 Unless i give the CC a bashing…. 🙂
Gotta hand it to asus, they never release anything in a half assed manner, no wonder they generate billions each year.
That thermaltake case doesnt appeal to me on a looks basis, but its a nice design inside.
Frigin awesome boards, the pricing of this one is much higher than the others, but it looks to be worth it. thankfully they didnt use laptop memoery slots. that was dumb.
I wouldnt mind one of these to have in my bedroom for streaming to the TV. would like a remote for it though. like a gyro unit. I hate those windows media remotes, useless.
I think these products arent gettign enough coverage, AMDs fusion will be brilliant in a laptop.
I am looking forward to the quad core products in a few months.
The power consumption tempts me, I know my media center must be sucking at least twice that at idle, probably three times. Might pick one up next month, whenever I can find the bits to buy!
low power is the future. the cost of living now is rising all the time. less = more.
I am ordering one of these when its available.
Its well worth 140 quid, compared to the others at 100.
Zardon , all these fusion reviews are friggin pointless man, you can’t buy fusion products anywhere.
AMD release this in January and over a month later still no products in European retail? They are beyond useless.
Not a single fusion board for sale in the UK, waste of everyones time
So I price up a system and realise this motherboard actually isn’t for sale anywhere.
So I look for other fusion boards, and nadda. What’s up with AMD stock?
Thanks for the review. Nice background to the graphs.
Not one to be found in the USA either. Someone on Ebay has them for $263 USD shipped from Hong Kong. It takes weeks to get here and what a rip off. Come Asus get those motherboards shipped. They have MSI and Gigabyte here but they aren’t as good as the Asus model and require fans.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131698&cm_re=zacate-_-13-131-698-_-Product 😀 In stock!
Hi, Great review! I have a question regarding the used Corsair Dominator DDR3 memory. I was searching for it and found modules with different specs. Can you specify the partnumber or details? Another question is, because the Fusion is single channel, is it the ok to place one memory module? Thanks in advance!
Hello, thanks for the comments. I unfortunately can’t check the partnumber right now, as this system is with a colleague in another part of the world. I will try and find out, but any Corsair DDR3 Dominator will work fine with this board. It will just ‘downclock’. Obviously you don’t need to use this particular memory, as every DDR3 stick we have tried has worked fine in Fusion boards.
Single channel, and one memory module is perfectly fine yes, works great.
Hi Zardon, thanks for you quick reply. I really would appreciate it if you can sort out the partnumber or details. Once I’ve got really messed up with incompatible memory and I want it to do now the right way (incl. memory that can take the heat from overclocking;-)