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In order to measure the temperature of the APU, the system was booted and left at idle for 5 minutes to stabilise before the idle temperature was recorded. Shortly after, Unigine Heaven benchmark was left to run its benchmark for several minutes, then the on- load temperature was recorded using HWmonitor.
Ambient temperatures were maintained at 19c.
The temperature results are below.
These temperatures are very impressive and a testament to how power efficient the A4 3400APU is.
To measure power consumption, we used a power meter on the mains supply that was attached directly to the system, excluding all other external devices. We loaded Unigine Heaven benchmark, to test the system under a ‘general load’ situation.
These results are even more impressive than the temperatures. The system demands 37 watts when idle and just over 70w at the socket under full load. To put this into perspective, the idle power consumption is less than the majority of traditional filament light bulbs; impressive stuff and potentially attractive to businesses that run a plethora of desktop machines for many hours a day.
£50 for the cpu and £50 for the gigabyte mobo is pretty good isnt it ? id always been put off bying a system like this for my tv as the motherboards were often well over £100 even if the processors were cheap.
im tempted now. shall try and talk my credit card into accepting the charge.
Nice setup on Dabs for these, makes it easier to work out where to get the bits,
only thing is, they should have made some complete systems with memory, power supply etc, took a few quid from them. would have worked a lot better. seems a bit ‘half assed’ having a page with the A4’s and motherboards and nothing else. these are ideal for students who maybe need the help
Hybrid crossfire has always sucked, glad to see it hasnt gotten better all of a sudden.
not a bad deal for the price, but its probably slow as molasses for a work machine. Adding a cheap SSD might help.
Im curious, can it be overclocked?
its pretty good value for money. Not sure id want one, but would be good for a server system
I have that proc. and Gigabyte MB and i am very satisfied with that. Plus i got Ati Saphyre graphic card with 1 GB. As it was said, it is really good for lite gaming, and very cheap. And @Brian, yes it can be overclocked! 🙂
Is there such a thing as an intel atom quad core? The 6450 is pretty puny so really adds not very much except heat and cost. A 6670 or better would kick things up a notch/