- AMD APU
- DDR3 1600
- AMD Radeon HD 8400 graphics
Perfect Gentoo/XBMC box
12/05/2013
This review is from: ECS KBN-I/5200 AMD A6-5200 Quad Core processor Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo
Pros:
Have it working perfectly as a XBMC machine running Gentoo Linux. Not sure what other review(s) are going on about when they claim poor Linux compatibility. Everything works fine, even accelerated video decoding w/ HDMI audio out--even have VSYNC enabled to prevent tearing!
Also have streaming of Adobe flash movies from Google play, youtube, etc working.
STRONGLY recommend this platform for a media center machine when running Linux!
Entire system uses roughly 17 W at the outlet when idle, although I haven't yet started working on aggressive power savings so, hopefully, if I can get this even lower...
Cons:
I suppose the price is a little high but I prefer it over the 1.5GHz clocked model as there are times when playing adobe flash movies that the extra clockspeed helps...
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- Robert J.
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