AMD C-50 CPU and 6250 GPU performance(Acer 522 review)

anybody who installed 12.10 driver?

 

I installed Catalyst 12.10 a week or so ago. Smooth install, no problems.

Harry

 

Just installed 12.10, so what games will run on the c-50? is there as list.

John.

 

I did a fresh install of Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit on my 522. Metro UI doesn't work as the resolution is to low. Performance wise i could say it runs on par with Windows 7, maybe a little bit snappier. I've got about 700MB of RAM usage on system startup with no applications running in Desktop mode. Regarding boot time, i couldn't say i've seen any drastic improvement, maybe because i have a triple boot setup... It's pretty stable with no drivers needed except the newest Catalyst, even though it crashed on me once. I'll report any new quirks in the following days.

 

going to re install Win 8 on my 522 for battery life comparisons.

Also have 12.11 beta installed, works well but haven't noticed any speed improvements

 

12.10 is cool,smoother multitask wit video pb.
i read somewer that if yu dont install southb driver within cat it will boost fps 10%
there is win 8 drivers on acer web, tell us than how w8 works on for you...

 

hi guys, still on this looong thread? in any case I am still doing benchmarks and so forth with this magical chip...

and some more on my channel here

 

blog.thinkteletronics.com/netflix-hd-on-amd-c-50/
you can now watch hd netflix stutter free.

 

Is the CPU in a socket? Can you upgrade it?

 

No, it is an embedded part that is is soldiered to the board.

 

illustrates why MS continues to lose marketshare.
its free on android.... works awfully smoothly on tegra 3, OMAP, etc SoC's

 

amd releases 13.1 driver , really cool and smooth

 

I found 13.2 beta 4 to work quite nicely, I only play Dota 1 and yet it plays more smoothly than it did before.

I still find that Vimeo HD lags though =/

 

Hi everyone. Finally have a new reason to see whats up around these parts heh. Anyways just got my Acer Aspire One from AT&T with its C-50. Which I know the C60 is better, however the att model least has the sim card hardware. (Which is nice) Upgraded it to 4GB ram too.

So anyways, been hearing about these placebo effects to take it to 4 ghz (which I already know is a false reading and doesnt do anything) Then I am hearing about k10stat which seems no one has really proven that it doesnt help performance any? Is this correct?

Anyways I am wondering if anyone found any good tweaks to increase FPS rates in some games any? Now I will admit, this lil netbook has surprised me. It plays FFXI pretty well. I just wouldnt mind some extra fps from it heh. Also I have noticed, upgrading from windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro seems to help this netbook respond abit better too. Which is good. =)

 

Anyone tried putting a Broadcom BCM70015 into one of these 522s? Just wondering if it would improve gaming as well as video performance. It goes into the slot where your wi-fi card is and, apparently, takes most of the decoding load off the GPU which then only has to do the page flipping, pixel shuffling, etc. A friend of mine tried one of these on an older Intel Atom netbook and he was amazed at the increase in video performance. Link below:

BCM970015 Broadcom Video/Audio Hardware Decoder Accelerator Crystal HD PCI Express mini card Hardware Decoder

If you read the comments on that item you'll see that it seems to work well in some netbooks... especially when you use a player that does not come with its own codecs (VLC does) but rather uses the included Windows 7 codecs..

 

Looks nice, but does seem like its for videos more then it would be for gaming. (Unless the game had a pre-rendered video for playback)
Now I know on my other netbook, Id love to have been able to see 720p and up easier. Thing is, on that one, I think I used that free slot for my bluetooth, so dont think I have room now for this heh. Then in my current netbook, the slot is for my 4G modem.

However nice find! I never knew they existed!

 

I'm going to order one in a couple months when I have some extra money to spend. I'll report back to see if it really does boost video and gaming performance. But I think you're probably right about it being primarily for video and audio decoding and would not help games very much, if at all.

I'm surprised to see that this thread is still alive. My Acer 522 is two years old but still runs great. It looks like they are getting hard to find (got mine from a neighbor).

 

Hey, just curious, anyone know if you can upgrade the CPU from C-50 to a C60?

 

standard answer: use search.:hi2:

 

Well my 1st thought is no like normal, but never know if someone figured something else out. Besides, search even on google doesnt yield too much about it. Always try that before a post. =p

 

Hows LoL playing for you?

 

Did anyone send the information to the Setfsb author?

 

Still using my c-50 as a primary computer. You will want to use brazostweaker to lower the voltage which at factory levels is fairly high and not necessary. Through undervolting you'll get some minimal battery increase and of course less wear on the hardware itself.

Regarding the Setfsb, I checked today to see if there was any good news regarding this. Someone has to take their netbook completely apart to find coding information. We are a lazy bunch.

I get perfect emulation with psx software and mame runs well, though I have trouble with the newer Cave shmups. It can play DDOJ, Ketsui and Espgaluda perfectly.

Also, surprisingly, I can video edit with cyberlink power director. It's not snappy, but works.


Yeah, I should upgrade but it does video in HD very well and works well for my daily use. I am still impressed with the level of performance considering how cheap this sold for.

 

Can one say me whether get I to begin the metro Apps on an Acer one 522 under Windows 8?

thx

 

Personally I bought my Acer 522 in early 2011 and used it a lot during two years. I played a lot with it, sometimes with performance many would consider unplayable though. These days I don't play as much and I'm using much more my old Dell Inspiron from 2006 because it is faster for web browsing. I am not totally surprised that The Cave is not running well on the C-50. Last year, I was a bit disappointed by the poor performance of Stacking from the same developers (I think). Recently I have tried Torchlight 2 which runs quite well. I am pondering on an SSD upgrade for this year, to breath new life into it.

 

i run the c50 version from 2011 i think and its working flawesly for movie center, work, browsing..its lovely little eco friendly machine..i got only one problem at begining . ventilator brokes after few weeks..but they come for it and send it and of course fix it in week ! perfect service from acer btw.. !!!
i am just getting some lag on some 720p mkv filetypes...but it maybe only codec/player bug

 

Hey AO522 owners. I found a way to overclock the monitor refresh rate. I got it to 110 hz. I made a guide about it here:
DIY Hardware Hacks and Mods: How I overclocked Acer Aspire One 522 screen refresh rate to 110 hz

It SHOULD work with other netbook and laptop screens and even with desktop monitors. I wonder if anyone can get even higher than 110 hz on their screen ( although some may get lower ).. Anyways, check it out and post results.

Really amazing value from this tiny cheap netbook

 

Good day. Sorry for my bad English) I have Asus 1015bx with c-60. Bios 0610. I have very intersting problem with Brazostweaker. Unfortunately it doesn't ghange voltage. Programms show me voltage that i have made (P2 0.9 for example), but in reality i haven't see some changes in working time or temperature. And what interesting i can change voltage to 0.5V at 1333 mhz (as u can see it's unreal). At 0.4875V netbook freezes, but i think that it's bug of the programm. But I can change multiplier in Brazostweaker. If someone have such problem please answer me. Thank you.

 

I own an Asus 1215B AMD c-50... I think maybe someone knows how to OC it... Anyone? :hi2:

 

Hi malexsky! I hope you get this message... I have recently found this post, I do own a 1215B - AMD c50. The thing is, I can't overclock it, eventhough I have SetFSB already. All I get is a "SMbus error" message. I even have contacted Abo - SetFSB creator.
Could you please let me know which version of SetFSB did you use back then to make this OC possible? I'd really appreciate your help!

Cheers!

 

hi there,
this is cool, anybody try that?
so i only change the frequency? nothing else?
thanks

 

Yes only frequency.

 

the final trick for the acer 522 android 4.3 amd c-50 brazos apu - YouTube android 4.3 running decently via opensource linux drivers.

 

ok i added 80,90hz so far and all works ))
cool!
my screen type is SEC564E / 1280x720 max
i will try even higher freq.
update: i noticed few glitches when running OC display.
1. strange specific color dithering on windows blue welcome screen
2. strange specific color dither on window glass effect
strange...
i removed those cru tweaks of possible driver instalation problems
btw 13.8 beta2 mobility is very good driver

 

Got the beta2 drivers aswell and yeah, they are very good.
Also had no problems installing drivers with CRU.

 

with kernel 3.12 and ubuntu 13.10 you can use this netbook with the opensource drivers and get hd video acceleration.

 

You actually got ubuntu working well on the acer 522?

 

yeah and I have never had many issues running linux barring video decoding problems, mostly due to flash.

 

I have had a few C-60 notebooks one Win7 and one Win8 but they were so slow, always running at 100% or close, so slow like watching paint dry, 600 passmark points is just not enough, you really need at least 1000 to 1500 to be usable running Win7 or Win8 , dont know how other OS would run though.

Oh Yeah, just ordered an A6-1450 Quad cpu based notebook it gets around 1600 passmark points.

John.

 

iam using this on win7 w 4gb ram and even resolume vjing in HD is running pretty good... than video playback is upto 1080 smooth...also working in photoshop,corel,word no single problem... its not fast as quad desktop of course but all is decent

 

On the AMD C-50 the gpu is great, it`s the cpu that lets it down with an passmark score of only 444 points

Also running a video higher than your native resolution, eg running an fullhd video on an screen that`s not even hd, means it`s being down-scaled so it`s not a true test i would think.

John.

 

the little netbook that could, Androidx86 4.4.2 on AMD C-50 APU - APUsilicon
running kitkat on this little beast. The best part about open-source drivers.

 

Also works with the latest drivers now. Had a problem with a driver before.

Also any progress on the CPU overclock part?

 

It's a shame the unlocked BIOS doesn't unlock the dynamic clocks, overclocking would help so much.

I guess no one used the c50 anymore. xD

 

still use mine but this doesnt have unlocked multipliers and no mobo I have seen support bus overclocking. OCing just isnt something this chip can do. Run a lighter os like android, windows xp[?] or some linux distro...

 

Well considering you can buy machines with at least twice the performance for < $300 there's no need. And the Acer V5-122p 11.6" with A6-1450 quad core costs $350 and can run pretty much anything out there. Not to mention the Asus Transformer T100 that can also play games reasonably well for < $300.