A8-7600 vs A10-7700K

ninjapants · December 20, 2015

I have already made a few topics regarding this "Steam machine" I am building, I hope this is the last one.

So I was planning on building a very small PC to use as a steam machine that I can even take with me when I visit friends abroad. The initial plan was using a A8-7600, but yesterday I found a guy on a the austrian equivalent of craigslist, who is selling his old PC containing an A10-7700K. Getting that would cost me a little more than buying an all new CPU and Ram (the only two things I would use from the PC). Although

I plan on spending as little money as possible on this thing I am thinking abut buying that PC, but how much difference will there be in performance?? I mean the only difference I can see is that the A10 has a whopping 0.3Ghz higher base clock, but the boost is the same. Oh and the A10 can be overclocked but I don't know how much i will be able to get out of it.

Is it worth it spending about 100 for the A10 instead of 85 bucks for the A8? The only thing i care about is in-game perfromance.

Thanks

NinjaJc01 · December 20, 2015

I have already made a few topics regarding this "Steam machine" I am building, I hope this is the last one.

So I was planning on building a very small PC to use as a steam machine that I can even take with me when I visit friends abroad. The initial plan was using a A8-7600, but yesterday I found a guy on a the austrian equivalent of craigslist, who is selling his old PC containing an A10-7700K. Getting that would cost me a little more than buying an all new CPU and Ram (the only two things I would use from the PC). Although

I plan on spending as little money as possible on this thing I am thinking abut buying that PC, but how much difference will there be in performance?? I mean the only difference I can see is that the A10 has a whopping 9.3Ghz higher base clock, but the boost is the same. Oh and the A10 can be overclocked but I don't know how much i will be able to get out of it.

Is it worth it spending about 100 for the A10 instead of 85 bucks for the A8? The only thing i care about is in-game perfromance.

Thanks

The world record for CPU overclocking is less than 9GHz. Please correct your units. And the A10 has a better architecture than the A8, so it will perform better.

ninjapants · December 20, 2015

The world record for CPU overclocking is less than 9GHz. Please correct your units. And the A10 has a better architecture than the A8, so it will perform better.

Sorry, was writing it in a hurry so i missed the 0. that "whopping" was sarcasm, i guess the 9ghz difference made it sound like i was being serious huh...