I was thinking about switching to an apu since i may not have as much money to spend on a pc as i had thought. My main concern with getting an apu would be what happens when i need to upgrade it? Does it work just as well as other processors do with higher end graphics cards or would i need to buy a whole new cpu and motherboard to get the benefit of using a for example a 670 or a 7970?
I do believe that they are comparable to I3's.
I'm not sure what that means. Is that good? I see a lot about the apu's and people saying to crossfire it with the 6670 for the a10-5800k. But how does it perform on new games with higher end gpu's?
I see a lot about the apu's and people saying to crossfire it with the 6670 for the a10-5800k. But how does it perform on new games with higher end gpu's?
What? I dont know what to answer but it's comparable to an i3, and should pair well with any gpu that performs at the sub gtx 660 level.
so with a gpu over the 660 its going to bottleneck the gpu?
This is an interesting topic. What if the APU is overclocked? I've got mine at 4 Ghz and was planning on getting a 7850.
they perfom as well as mobile parts, there a great idea for an all in 1 solution but you dont want to pair them up with a high end gfx card.
1s you disable the on chip gpu you will loose substantial perfomance as it wont use a dedicated card the same way as the cpugpu.
so for a full on gaming desktop build there just not there yet and may never be, but for a cheap all in 1 media center to blay basic games like a bit of cod on medium settings they are workable.
to be honest they are the 1 thing that amd really does have going for them atm. you can build a working pc for 300bux and have it no bigger than a shoe box.
If you buy this AMD A10 CPU APU get HD 6670 to get a Hybrid CrossfireX. Some games dont use it, some get bad performance with it like any regular game that is not crossfire/sli compatible. But you can get great performance, it just depends from game to game. Its a cheap and great solution and A10's can kick the crap out i5's with its APU/IGP, its other way around when they have GPU's.
A10's is a good investment and with 6670 you can play Skyrim 1080p30fpsUltra, you can play all games on 1080p just depends what setting are need to be set to play it in 1080p with decent framerate. You can buy GPU and then a great cooler. Then its a best. One guy overclocked the heck out of his build, I will try to find a video and post it. He could play BF3 at ultra, if I remember correctly it was 1080p with 40-60fps.
edit: Found this video, not overclocked but if it was that would run 1080p30-60fps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ5hhGrOKAk
like i said the best thing amd is doing atm...
It would be even better if they could change the socket for the apu. I dont know if thats possible but it would give consumers more options. They could make it like an entry level processor and then when you have more money you would only need to buy another cpu instead of having to buy an all new board as well.
afktek... Because of arhitecture of AMD A series CPU's its not possible to have compatible sockets... In near future maybe 5 years late ordinary CPU and CPU/APU from AMD will have a compatible sockets even thought I doubt it. Dont worry, buy it. Its good even thought you are very limited, if you have a small bugdet this is a way to go, but if you have a enough bugdet to buy an CPU that is AM3/AM3+ and that just go for it...
Search on newegg, you could buy an old AMD cpu from 3-5 years that is AM3 and get a board that is AM3 but can be converted to AM3+ when you update a bios... Ive seen a dual core AMD CPU for only 53$ on newegg, its a steal.
i have a amd a8 3870 with a gtx 670 reference and its horrible, my gpu uses around 40-50% in most games
Something is wrong... Your motherboard or ram... whats your full specs or are you just a another fanboy trying to trash AMD? You are probavly having a bottleneck by CPU or GPU...
Also having an Nvidia on A series CPU/APU is not good, you should bought an AMD Radeon HD series GPU that is compatible with A8's APU using hybrid crossfireX... Heh, its your fault for not thinking and doing some research.
I looked a invalid face's profile his specs are right there, and it really looks like he's done 0 reserach from the looks of things....
670 with an apu, you were just misinformed..terribly misinformed