AM1 socket processor performance

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Trying to figure out the performance of the am1 socket quad core, the most expensive of that line of processor, and its performance. The reason why I am asking is because it isn't a system for me, there is a family that doesn't own a computer but they have two kids that love video games. I have an extra 500gig hard drive, 4 gigs of ram, a 2 year old antec earth watt power supply,('The newer one without the defective capacitors'). and I also have a dvd drive. So my question is how well will the am1 processor perform in a game like wow? they joined a video game club and school and they really like it, they would be okay at low settings and the resolution would be about 720p. I don't really care about any of the intel stuff or increasing my budget, so that is why I'm not going to give one, this is being done completely by donations.

Read the whole question before answering, if I see anything about budget, etc... my guess will be that you didn't read the full question. Simple answer, thanks
 
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The most powerful AM1 processor widely available is probably going to be the Athlon 5350, which is a quad-core running at 2.05 GHz and Radeon 8400 integrated graphics, for whatever that's worth. I would suggest getting a low-cost GPU as well, and they should be set to run most stuff at low to very low settings at 720p.

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The most powerful AM1 processor widely available is probably going to be the Athlon 5350, which is a quad-core running at 2.05 GHz and Radeon 8400 integrated graphics, for whatever that's worth. I would suggest getting a low-cost GPU as well, and they should be set to run most stuff at low to very low settings at 720p.
 
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I'm running Ubuntu on an Athlon 5150 machine with the latest kernel and Mesa drivers.

My impression is that 3D performance is quite nice, perhaps on par with an entry level video card. However, the CPU side may present a bottleneck.

Some 3D games are silky smooth (Broken Age, The Bard's Tale, Torchlight; high settings, I believe), while others are far too slow to be playable (Trine 2, Ravensword: Shadowlands). Valve's Portal falls somewhere in between: the frame rate lags below 30 fps, but the game remains quite playable. Reducing visual quality from high to medium helps a bit, but performance isn't that different either way.

Most 2D games I've tried run well, but then again, it probably depends on how the software was optimized. For instance, Surgeon Simulator looks like a simple Flash game, but it's unplayably slow on this machine.

Given its age, I'd suspect that WOW should run okay, but this isn't something I've tested.