My friend is on a ps3 right now,and he wants to start playing with us on the pc.My friend has a limited budget of 400-500 dollars he has all the peripherals like a monitor,mouse,keyboard,and os so all he needs is the parts.Also my friend does not know a single thing about what to buy like when I told him to look for the parts he wanted he chose the fx 8350,a fm2+ motherboard,and a gtx 630 4gb.He has a monitor with a resolution of 1280x1024 for now so he does not need a beefy gpu and the games he wants to play are Minecraft,Cubeworld,Skyrim,Planetside 2,wow,and Day z.I noticed the games he was going to play were mostly cpu intensive so when I started to put parts together I ended up with a Athlon x4 760k 80$,Msi a88xm-e45 60$,Crucial ballistix elite 2x4 8gb 1866mhz 50$,corsair cx 500m 40$,Msi r7 260x 2gb 100$,Samsung evo 250gb ssd 100$,and a WD 1 terabyte hdd for 60$.This added up to be 490$,but I saw benchmarks where the Athlon could barley run planetside,and day z at 720p with 30 fps even with a hd 7870.So I was wondering if Amd will release a Athlon with their steamroller cores so he could have a bit better performance for these games.
Probably not since the iGPU in Kaveri is an extension of the CPU rather than an onboard discrete module like those found on Richland APUs
I thought the igpu cores were only going to be used for HSA programs while the 2 steamroller modules are the everyday task cpu.
If you look at a picture of the kaveri architecture you can see the GCN core right in the middle of the whole thing and those core are supposedly wired directly into the busses of the modules so unlike Richland you probably won't be able to lase off a bad iGPU and bin it as an athlon
Aww I guess the best thing to do is stick with the athlon x4 760k then.
You can always go for fx6300, but it is a bit more expensive.
There are no great micro-atx boards for am3+,and the fx 6300 uses the same cores as the athlon so more of the same weak cores would not do shit for the single core games I listed above.
steamroller saw lower power consumption, and better performance per watt, overall performance was not dramatically increased. The big gains were on the GPU and HSA.
Piledriver cores are perfectly fine for gaming, my friend has a fx4100 (zambezi cores) and plays Minecraft, Cubeworld, Skyrim, Planetside 2 , WoW, and Day z perfectly fine. Keep in mind Day Z is terribly optimized and plays like crap on any system intel or amd atm. So a piledriver core cpu is not going to make the computer unplayable.
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Yup it seems that most people are thinking that that is going to be for the release of the mullins apu..it is the successor of the Kabini apu's which just came out for the desktop...
Its hard to tell from that die shot, if I had to hazard a guess its the quad core Berlin server apu.
If your friend hasn't purchased anything what about considering this build?
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3yoFV
This added up to be 490$,but I saw benchmarks where the Athlon could barley run planet side,and day z at 720p with 30 fps even with a hd 7870.
Well don't worry about those games, also planet side has had a bunch of performance updates but no new benchmarks, a hd 7870 should be fine for what hes using it for, Day Z is a horribly optimized game it doesn't run well on most platforms.
That is possible too
There won't really be games that a 8350 wouldn't be able to play decently unless something is really wrong with the game itself. If you look at the build theonewhoisdrunk posted right up there. That build would be really good if you haven't bought stuff yet.
Beema APU.
Die looks very similar to a Kabini chip.