APU, I am finally a believer

[Stephie_Girl]

After using an Athlon II X4 and a bulldozer CPU I was seriously upset with AMD until I got my FX-6300.  But now I have an A10-5800K for a customer and it's super amazing!!!  It's very quick with tasking like my FX-6300 and the HD 7660D can play wow on a mix of high/ultra settings @ 1080+ above 30 FPS. Even in 25 man raids I see 25+ but I have to set everything to high and turn SSAO off, shadows down a lil and AF to x4.  But for 110 dollars which is what I got it for to get that kind of CPU and GPU power is AWESOME!!!!  I am using 2x4GB DDR3 1866MHz, but strangely GPU-Z only shows like 768MB allocated to the APU and the bios doesn't let me add more :(

EDIT: I do happen to have an HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 to crossfire with it laying around somewhere, but I did manage to get a 6.9/7.9 WEI on Aero and Gaming, which doesn't mean a lot but for marketing it does xD

[NinjaStyle013]

APUs are AMDs golden idea, watch intel try to invent their own or try to beat it with better hd graphics (AMD own ATI what ya gunna do intel)

[Mansel]

Yeah the apu has only allowance that i dont think it can surpass.. damn haha!

[CornOnJacob]

My problem with the APUs has always been that the price of fast memory counters what you save by buying it.

[Stephie_Girl]

 I am just so surprised that an APU gives the performance of about a 60 dollar graphics card.  On top of that you get a Quad Core dual module CPU clocked at 3.8GHz.  Granted it's not as strong as an I3 core to core, it still is quick!!

[Stephie_Girl]

I got 2x4GB DDR3 1866MHz for 58 dollars on sale xD

[Godlygamer23]

Intel already makes APUs technically.

[iAsuno]

what i would like to see are high end APUs. something with a power of a 7970. that would be a breakthrough.

[Stephie_Girl]

Intel already makes APUs technically.

Yes, but I've messed with an I7-3770 for someone with the HD 4,000 graphics and it's nowhere near this APU :(

[Goldilock]

What is your 1866MHz memory ?

 

Things will be different once DDR4 come out.

[Godlygamer23]

Yes, but I've messed with an I7-3770 for someone with the HD 4,000 graphics and it's nowhere near this APU :(

Intel doesn't likely care about the integrated graphics portion. Even so, with Haswell, they're much closer to AMD's APUs on the graphics side.

[Stephie_Girl]

What is your 1866MHz memory ?

 

Things will be different once DDR4 come out.

Gskill: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231455 - 15% with a promo code xD

 

Intel doesn't likely care about the integrated graphics portion. Even so, with Haswell, they're much closer to AMD's APUs on the graphics side.

Yes it's a bit closer but that's only on the I7.  See the thing is Intel's I3's always have very low end graphics compared to the I5's and I7's.

[NinjaStyle013]

Intel doesn't likely care about the integrated graphics portion. Even so, with Haswell, they're much closer to AMD's APUs on the graphics side.

Yeah, if you have an i7 k edition. Kinda stupid to spend that much and get the same sorta performance.

[Dravic]

Apus are shitty price to performance... They are bad performers and they cost waaay too much. Give me price of your whole system and I will build a better one with cpu+GPU instead of apu within 100$ margin of error that will perform multiple times as good.

[Godlygamer23]

Yes it's a bit closer but that's only on the I7.  See the thing is Intel's I3's always have very low end graphics compared to the I5's and I7's.

That's apparently stopping with Haswell. The i3 will get the same iGPU.

[Godlygamer23]

Apus are shitty price to performance... They are bad performers and they cost waaay too much. Give me price of your whole system and I will build a better one with cpu+GPU instead of apu within 100$ margin of error that will perform multiple times as good.

This one is $131.69. You consider that expensive?

[Dravic]

This one is $131.69. You consider that expensive?

Price to performance? Yes. How much did you pay for the mobo?

[Godlygamer23]

Price to performance? Yes. How much did you pay for the mobo?

You can get one pretty cheap. For instance, this one is $50. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130661

[Dravic]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1uLxf

This will outperform the apu GREATLY, and gives you an upgrade option as well.

Fm2 is dead socket if you don't know guys yet. Fm2+ will be required for new APUs.

[Dravic]

You can get one pretty cheap. For instance, this one is $50. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130661

[NinjaStyle013]

Apus are shitty price to performance... They are bad performers and they cost waaay too much. Give me price of your whole system and I will build a better one with cpu+GPU instead of apu within 100$ margin of error that will perform multiple times as good.

While I agree that a pentium with a 7750 will beat an apu it isn't fair to go dissing them. They offer a cheap solution that gives you good graphics and it consumes a little power and produces a little heat. APUs win everytime for budget builds. 100 dollars margin of error is a hell of a big margin, most builds are adamant on staying at their budget.

[Kuzma]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1uLxf

This will outperform the apu GREATLY, and gives you an upgrade option as well.

Fm2 is dead socket if you don't know guys yet. Fm2+ will be required for new APUs.

This +1 actually :/ the 7770 is an amazing GPU for a budget gamer and so is the Phenom x4.

Draic +1

[Dravic]

While I agree that a pentium with a 7750 will beat an apu it isn't fair to go dissing them. They offer a cheap solution that gives you good graphics and it consumes a little power and produces a little heat. APUs win everytime for budget builds. 100 dollars margin of error is a hell of a big margin, most builds are adamant on staying at their budget.

Price to performance is shitty. But poor people usually are poor because they make silly decisions as well so I can see connection between this and the fact poor people get APUs.

If you can calculate you can easily see how GPU plus CPU DESTROYS an apu for few bucks more. Let's count shall we?

[NinjaStyle013]

Price to performance is shitty. But poor people usually are poor because they make silly decisions as well so I can see connection between this and the fact poor people get APUs.

If you can calculate you can easily see how GPU plus CPU DESTROYS an apu for few bucks more. Let's count shall we?

I wouldn't insult people based on whether or not they are poor when you have a 9800 GT still.

[Henry]

Or u can get a cheap FX with a 7770 with 4-6gb of 1333 mhz memory. With an apu, ur gonna need fast memory to take advantage of that integrated graphics.