Final Thoughts

It's important to keep in mind that, like the Atom platform, the AMD Unification Brazos architecture is designed to beryllium low hopped-up and cost effective. While IT bequeath serve as a low-end HTPC operating theatre basic computer for e-get off and Web surfing, it's not meant to replace your primary workstation. Although we were impressed with the intermingled Radeon HD 6310 GPU's performance, the E-350 lacks the raw CPU HP to cost suitable for a high-end HTPC.

Compared to the Atom, we found the E-350 to be much more powerful. The E-350 was more responsive than the Atom 330 for basic use, spell the Radeon HD 6310 trumped the Nvidia Ion in about every 3D application we tested. Furthermore, the E-350 offers more features than the Atom/Ion combo as well as documentation for laden Delirium tremens-HD Mom and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming.

Motherboards such as the Asus E35M1-M Pro have a unabridged PCIe x16 slot with x4 bandwidth, but we put on't urge installing a beefier graphics card. The embedded Radeon HD 6310 was already being limited by the Bobcat cores in some of the games we reliable, so adding a separate card would jack the power consumption for little gain. By itself, the E-350 was very impressive in the business leader section, chugging slightly little juice than the Atom 330/Nvidia Ion compounding.

Looking for past AMD's new chip, we think Asus deserves some attending for its work on the E35M1-M Pro. For roughly $140, we are impressed with how have-packed the board is, shipping with Asus' EPU, Opposed-Heave Protection, TurboV, Turbo Key II and EFI BIOS (EZ Mode). The board's design is as wel top-nick and we appreciate the use of a large passive heatsink rather of the puny buff that Sir Thomas More common designs have.

Boilersuit, the AMD Nuclear fusion reaction E-350 is an impressive little package, especially considering its ~$100 price tag. While we're intoxicated nearly the Brazos computer architecture and what AMD has already achieved with it, we're aegir to see more Fusion APUs. After every last, the Intel Atom platform has been roughly for almost three years nowadays, so AMD still has a band of catching up to do.