Discussion for AMD CPU/APU owners

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

http://pcformat.techradar.com/2012/05/03/is-it-all-amds-fault/

Does anyone even...I don't...Bah the ignorance in that article is overwhelming.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I'm about to make the jump (or descent?) from a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo to an AMD FX-4100 3.6GHz.

I've been out of the computer hardware loop for about 4 years now.. am I upgrading or downgrading here? :p

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

It all depends what you are doing with your PC.

You might want to upgrade to an APU if you're more of an gamer type or wait for Piledriver, if you're more of an multi-tasking person then 4100 is a good choice! :)

But from the C2D it's, without a question, an upgrade!

[Freelancer1111]

Does anyone here have experience about the A8 Llano Series and how well they are able to play Games or other stuff ? I know that there are dozens of benchmarks, but I rather want a human opinion.

I also read that a the FM2 socket is coming, who should be better than the old FM1 one. Should I wait for the new one or still get the "old" ones ?

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

Does anyone here have experience about the A8 Llano Series and how well they are able to play Games or other stuff ? I know that there are dozens of benchmarks, but I rather want a human opinion.

I also read that a the FM2 socket is coming, who should be better than the old FM1 one. Should I wait for the new one or still get the "old" ones ?

I'll let someone smarter answer about Llano but I'd wait for FM2, since when you buy A8 with FM1 right now you'll stick yourself with that and with no room for upgrade on the APU part. Also Trinity (FM2) is just about to come out...

[Arceles]

Does anyone here have experience about the A8 Llano Series and how well they are able to play Games or other stuff ? I know that there are dozens of benchmarks, but I rather want a human opinion.

I also read that a the FM2 socket is coming, who should be better than the old FM1 one. Should I wait for the new one or still get the "old" ones ?

see my sig, no game that I haven't been unable to play in a laptop. IMPORTANT, gaming requires quad cores.

[Freelancer1111]

Thanks,

I decided that i'll wait for the A10 APUs and view how they perform.

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

There are actually couple of benchmarks out on A10 already and it's looking really good.

A website has been getting samples from China and has compared it with the AMD-3850 A8 Llano. A10 5800K which will run in socket FM2 this will have an integrated graphics Radeon 7660D. Apparently, the benchmark results obtained are quite good Trinity. Two AMD Trinity benchmarks were run SuperPi and 3DMark 06. The result, A10-5800K in SuperPi 1M benchmark yield in 23 775 seconds, while the A8-3850 produced 26 039 seconds. In 3DMark 06, A10-5800K the yield point of 9396 and A8-3850 produces point 6223. On the CPU, Trinity was a slight increase from the predecessor. However, in the side graphics, performance reaches about 30%.

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

New record with 8150.

9GHz with 2 cores active.

http://*malware domain*/show_oc.php?id=2385966

You mad? :rofl:

http://www.overclockzone.com/forums/showthread.php/1533313-gt-gt-AMD-FX-81XX-CLUB-lt-lt/page67