Going to try out a new 25 watt TDP Quadcore AM1 system setup out of curiosity mainly, but ALSO to use it as an electron sipper system in my barn office which is going to have solar power with a battery bank. Hoping to have the barn mostly off the grid with exception to the internet connection that is fead to it from the house which is on the grid.

According to benchmarks, this Sempron Kabini Quadcore 1.3Ghz out performs my old gaming computers Dual Core Athlon 64 X2 4450B even with the 10% overclock to 2.53Ghz.

Old Gaming System CPU http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+Dual+Core+4450B = 1190 and last benchmark with overclock I was getting like a 1304 score with passmark.

New Electron Sipper Project CPU http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Sempron+3850+APU+with+Radeon+R3 = 1694

Here is the MOTHERBOARD and CPU that I bought and it came to like $72.

I already have a case, 350watt power supply, 2GB Patriot 1333Mhz DDR3 RAM, and a 240GB SSD that I am going to use for this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113366 = CPU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128696&cm_re=gigabyte_am1-_-13-128-696-_-Product = Motherboard

I almost went with the Athlon x4 for $52 instead of the Sempron x4. The Athlon is the 2.05Ghz as seen here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113364&cm_re=athlon_am1-_-19-113-364-_-Product , but I feel that although rated for 25 watts its going to be more power hungry than the 1.3Ghz 25 watt CPU because 25 watts is the TDP and not actual CPU load, as well as the benchmark for the 1.3Ghz is strong enough to do what I need it to do, so I went with that instead. They have a even cheaper x2 CPU available for $29.99, but the benchmark on this is poor compared to the x4 for $5 more. So I spent the $5 more to not have a totally weak CPU but something that might be similar to my old gaming systems CPU in processing power.

It looks like this electron sipper sempron quadcore could play some average GAMES etc. Not a build for serious gaming by far although i am going to put it to the test out of curiosity as to just how hard you can push it. For serious gaming I gave my AMD FX-8350 4Ghz 8-core system that runs on almost 500 watts continuous draw when gaming, when my old gaming system is about 165 watts tops, and I am hoping that the combined power draw on this electron sipper project is under 50 watts with display which is 18 watts leaving 32 watts for the computer which it might fall within with that slow 1.3Ghz clock.

I could have just used my Toshiba Netbook with 1.66Ghz Intel Atom processor out in the office of my barn with a 13 watt idle and 18 watt draw when playing games, but that Intel Atom is too under powered for even Facebook flash games, and it may be because of its weak GPU portion of the weak CPU which = the APU. With this new electron sipper desktop build I have a PCI Express slot available if I wanted to stuff a cheap video card into it and get better than the APU AMD Radeon HD 8280 graphics processing.

It will be interesting to SEE what it is and isnt capable of at 1.3Ghz.

Anyone try out the AM1 type builds yet to say WHETHER you like it or had any troubles with it etc?