AMD Athlon 5350 / 5150 & Sempron 3850 / 2650

For those wondering what the retail package is like for the AMD AM1 APUs, it was the same contents (obviously sans the APUs) for the different Sempron/Athlon models I bought. Included was the APU, the same basic heatsink fan that exclusively fits the AM1 socket, and the small AMD product pamphlet.

The aluminum heatsink fan was quiet during testing and barely audible, even when running in an open-air test-bed and being just a couple feet away. During the testing at stock speeds I didn't run into any thermal issues and the APU temperature readings are shared later in this article.

The AM1 APU temperatures are exposed under Linux using the k10temp driver. The fam15h_power driver that's supposed to report the approximate power draw of the APU individually was also automatically loaded for this hardware, but it didn't actually work. The AMD "Fam15h" Linux power driver on the 3.14 kernel was just always reporting 0.00 Watts while recognizing the 25 Watt limit of all four APUs. The Radeon PCI thermal driver was also reporting the reported GPU temperature on the Linux 3.14 kernel that I loaded past the Ubuntu 14.04 install.