AMD Cpu as daily driver?

[SammyGoad]

So, this morning some thug broke into my poor 2001 Camry and stole my precision 2011 I5 Lenovo Thinkpad. Homeowners insurance covered most of a replacement and I got a new Ideapad 310 with what seems like a pretty good cpu, an AMD A12-9700p with 4c/4t up to 3.5ghz(seems pretty good, like last gen I5 equivalent). I only paid $340usd and got 8gb of DDR4 an 1Tb harddrive(although I really dont like the 5400 rpm). I ran Ubuntu on my last laptop and going back to windows feels sluggish. Would having a dual boot option to a lite version of linux? am I delusional and this is actually a shit cpu? this is the first "New" laptop i've gotten in 5 to 6 years and Im woefully out of date if I got a good deal?

[Spudbilly]

1 minute ago, SammyGoad said:

So, this morning some thug broke into my poor 2001 Camry and stole my precision 2011 I5 Lenovo Thinkpad. Homeowners insurance covered most of a replacement and I got a new Ideapad 310 with what seems like a pretty good cpu, an AMD A12-9700p with 4c/4t up to 3.5ghz(seems pretty good, like last gen I5 equivalent). I only paid $340usd and got 8gb of DDR4 an 1Tb harddrive(although I really dont like the 5400 rpm). I ran Ubuntu on my last laptop and going back to windows feels sluggish. Would having a dual boot option to a lite version of linux? am I delusional and this is actually a shit cpu? this is the first "New" laptop i've gotten in 5 to 6 years and Im woefully out of date if I got a good deal?

The sluggishness in the vast majority of computers is the storage. Upgrade to an SSD that is compatible with your laptop and it will be hugely better. 

 

What do you do with your laptop?

[SammyGoad]

Also it has a R7 Apu, no idea what that means and going to device manager didnt give me any more info, Can it play like skyrim or Elite Dangerous, i'd be happy with that(my boss wouldn't be  :p)

 

[KB_TheDireWolf]

I use an FX series for over a year without much difficulty. Definitely bottlenecked my GTX 960 but it got the job done.

[NTDaws]

SSD

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Spudbilly said:

The sluggishness in the vast majority of computers is the storage. Upgrade to an SSD that is compatible with your laptop and it will be hugely better. 

 

What do you do with your laptop?

 

Well, I'm a research fellow so mostly opening a million pdf files and browser tabs, but I like myself some Skyrim and Elite Dangerous if at all possible. 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

3 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

So, this morning some thug broke into my poor 2001 Camry and stole my precision 2011 I5 Lenovo Thinkpad. Homeowners insurance covered most of a replacement and I got a new Ideapad 310 with what seems like a pretty good cpu, an AMD A12-9700p with 4c/4t up to 3.5ghz(seems pretty good, like last gen I5 equivalent). I only paid $340usd and got 8gb of DDR4 an 1Tb harddrive(although I really dont like the 5400 rpm). I ran Ubuntu on my last laptop and going back to windows feels sluggish. Would having a dual boot option to a lite version of linux? am I delusional and this is actually a shit cpu? this is the first "New" laptop i've gotten in 5 to 6 years and Im woefully out of date if I got a good deal?

a ssd would fix the sluggish feel and instead of doing dual boot you may want to look at using either xenserver esxi or unraid if your laptop supports virtualization then pass windows your integrated gpu then have a headless server version of linux running along side windows that you can ssh into and if you want a gui you should also be able to vnc into it that way you can use both without rebooting

[Spudbilly]

Just now, SammyGoad said:

Well, I'm a research fellow so mostly opening a million pdf files and browser tabs, but I like myself some Skyrim and Elite Dangerous if at all possible. 

IT should play those games fine...probably not on high settings, but close enough. I play Elite dangerous as well and I used to play perfectly fine with an i3 3220 and a amd hd 6670. on med-high settings. Skyrim depends on the mods you might play with...

 

The laptop should multitask perfectly fine. 

[SammyGoad]

1 minute ago, Alaradia said:

a ssd would fix the sluggish feel and instead of doing dual boot you may want to look at using either xenserver esxi or unraid if your laptop supports virtualization then pass windows your integrated gpu then have a headless server version of linux running along side windows that you can ssh into and if you want a gui you should also be able to vnc into it that way you can use both without rebooting

 

Those are some big linus words, I'll have to get my bf to translate

 

[SammyGoad]

1 minute ago, Spudbilly said:

IT should play those games fine...probably not on high settings, but close enough. I play Elite dangerous as well and I used to play perfectly fine with an i3 3220 and a amd hd 6670. on med-high settings. Skyrim depends on the mods you might play with...

 

The laptop should multitask perfectly fine. 

 

I know the struggle dude, I played Elite on like a AMD quad Apu with like 4gb ram, 1.8ghz core clock, 500mhz graphics

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

1 minute ago, SammyGoad said:

Those are some big linus words, I'll have to get my bf to translate

 

my bad dual booting will probably be easier i assumed you were fluent with the terminal

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Alaradia said:

my bad dual booting will probably be easier i assumed you were fluent with the terminal

I really just like Linux for the insane speed, no preinstalled Norton roadblocks, does the 8gb of ddr4 2133mhz ram make a difference compared to the 4gb DDR3 1000Mhz ish my old pc had?

[Shura]

11 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

So, this morning some thug broke into my poor 2001 Camry and stole my precision 2011 I5 Lenovo Thinkpad. Homeowners insurance covered most of a replacement and I got a new Ideapad 310 with what seems like a pretty good cpu, an AMD A12-9700p with 4c/4t up to 3.5ghz(seems pretty good, like last gen I5 equivalent). I only paid $340usd and got 8gb of DDR4 an 1Tb harddrive(although I really dont like the 5400 rpm). I ran Ubuntu on my last laptop and going back to windows feels sluggish. Would having a dual boot option to a lite version of linux? am I delusional and this is actually a shit cpu? this is the first "New" laptop i've gotten in 5 to 6 years and Im woefully out of date if I got a good deal?

Dual boot if you like linux, sluggishness is from the 5400 rpm HDD, upgrade to something like this:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/x28H99/sandisk-ssd-plus-480gb-25-solid-state-drive-sdssda-480g-g26

 

You won't be maxing out games but you should be able to run most at low to med settings.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

1 minute ago, SammyGoad said:

I really just like Linux for the insane speed, no preinstalled Norton roadblocks, does the 8gb of ddr4 2133mhz ram make a difference compared to the 4gb DDR3 1000Mhz ish my old pc had?

not really the thing that will give you a noticeable performance boost is a ssd its pretty much the universal fix for slow laptops 

[SammyGoad]

1 minute ago, Shura said:

Dual boot if you like linux, sluggishness is from the 5400 rpm HDD, upgrade to something like this:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/x28H99/sandisk-ssd-plus-480gb-25-solid-state-drive-sdssda-480g-g26

 

You won't be maxing out games but you should be able to run most at low to med settings.

 

Thats a big one, I was thinking more like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sandisk-SSD-128GB-SDSSDP-128G-/332174376467?hash=item4d5722be13:g:5nYAAOSwc-tY5HhB, are all ssds basically equal in speed or is the one you posted like much faster?

 

[Shura]

2 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

Thats a big one, I was thinking more like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sandisk-SSD-128GB-SDSSDP-128G-/332174376467?hash=item4d5722be13:g:5nYAAOSwc-tY5HhB, are all ssds basically equal in speed or is the one you posted like much faster?

 

Not all are equal, I picked the higher capacity one since you would need the room if you were dual booting. At the very least you should get 240gb+ since your on a laptop. Most people that go 120GB as boot drive, usually have a second hdd in their system but that's something you can't always do with laptops.