After my recent purchase of a CM 110 elite case I have decided that instead of transfering my present mini ITX pc into it I'm going to build from scratch. (apart from the psu which I'm swapping out and cutting unecessary cables). What I need to know is if an AM1 mini itx board with the quad core 5350 and a dedicated gpu (probably a 560ti if I can find a small enough one 2nd hand) will cut it for like league of legends and lego games. My current mini itx has a 560ti and a G2030 pentium and it plays these games fine on my 1080p tv.
I've only used the slightly higher model APUs from AMD (and I love them I must add) which I've no doubt would play the games you'd like even without a dedicated gpu. The AM1 chips are certainly less powerful, but I'm not sure how cpu intensive those games are.
I was going to go down the same route as you crapbag. The AM1 setup should be ok with those game it shouldn't bottleneck the GPU
That's what I was thinking being a higher clock speed but then the AM1 does have 4 cores if they were utilised by the game.
My advice dude, if the pentium runs the games fine and you're concerned about the AM1 being able to cut the mustard then keep the Pentium. I know it's a nice feeling getting shiney new hardware but I with given your doubts you're better off keeping with the hardware you have and know works.
DOH serves me right for not reading the first line properly my bad. Have you seen this in the market place? http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=280989 Nearly bought it myself, not sure how much you could pick up a 1150 itx board for but maybe worth a punt? Also note that the AM1 boards unless you go asrock come with 2 sata ports.
This should give you an idea of gaming performance with a 750 ti, very similar to the 560 ti in performance depending on the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3hD0YYPORo Theres a vid kicking about somewhere with the 5350 running bf4 with a 750 too.
Looking at anandtechs cpu benches it looks like it can do 37fps in BF4 at 1080p paired with a 770 so it should be more than capable of games like league and lego with a 560 or 750.
well I mean, how CPU heavy are those titles? The AM1 CPUs have pretty poor IPC. They can run windows pretty well, but I'm not sure I'd like to do any CPU heavy gaming on them. Also, you might want to try them without the 560ti - unless you already have that - and if you do a Pentium K would be far, far better.
My understanding was that bf4 was cpu heavy and it copes with that according to that bench. I'd rather go the pentium route but the boards are that much dearer again.
I've got a 'decommissioned' (replaced by FireTV) 5350 HTPC in the cupboard, I'll drag it out and see how the Lego games play tomorrow. I never actually played a game with it!
I've just had a quick play of Lego:LOTR, running MSI Afterburner to monitor frame rates etc. Being short on time I only ran the first 'scene' and with the default quality settings I was getting 25-30FPS, which is low but the game was perfectly playable without any issues. Not the most technical experiment but anything more strenuous wouldn't have been playable.
That was using the integrated gpu right? I would assume with a dedicated card you'd get a decent improvement.