Foxconn AMD Fusion NT-A3500 Nettop Review

The Foxconn NT-A3500 bios is a rather simple design and it doesn't offer much in the way of fine tuning. The Asus E35M1-I Deluxe Fusion board is by far the best when it comes to overclocking and tuning options.

To test the Fusion platform today, we are using a wide selection of real world and synthetic tests, clearly labeled. If you are only interested in video quality and hardware performance we advise you to shift forward in the review to the real world and image quality sections.

We also felt it would be interesting to compare some of our findings against the Intel Atom platform, in the shape of the 1.8GHz D525 processor. We have also included results from a previous generation AMD Turion 64 X2 L510 clocked at 1.6ghz.

Foxconn NT-A3500 System:
CPU/GPU: AMD Zacate APU – E350 (HD6310 graphics)
Memory: 2GB DDR3 1333mhz
Hard Drive: Western Digital 320GB Scorpio (7,200 rpm)

Supplemental Hardware:
Solid State: Kingston Hyper Max 3.0 x 2
Optical: Asus USB 2.0 BluRay Drive
Monitors: Sharp 50 inch 1080p Aquos LCD TV, LaCie 730 (IQ testing) and Dell U2410

Comparison processors:
Atom D525 @ 1.8ghz
Turion X64 X2 L510 @ 1.6ghz

Software:
Windows 7 64 Bit
Aida 64
SiSoft Sandra
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
Cyberlink Media Espresso
Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra V10
PCMark Vantage
PCMark 7
HQV Benchmark V 2.0
Left4Dead
Resident Evil 5

Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Keithley Integra unit
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp
Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter
Kill A Watt Meter

All results are gained from multiple test runs to ensure any abnormalities are removed before publication.

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