That's exactly true! I build systems for people 50yrs plus and found they don't care if Intel is getting 9502 points and AMD's getting 9498 in benchmarks. They all ask me the same things can i surf the net, listen to music and look at pictures. The AMD apu does this for a great price thats what counts.
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I am intrigued. This seems like the sort of thing that would be good for building a living-room entertainment system centered around videos, music, some gaming (I'm looking at you, Steam Big Picture), etc, while being able to maintain the sort of slimmer, smaller form-factor one would want to see in their entertainment center. With one of these on a board with integrated audio (I don't know of any that don't have integrated audio these days...), you really wouldn't need room for any PCI expansion. Maybe add a USB hub by your armchair if you don't mind some creative cable management and voila. No monitor needed if you already have a TV.
I'd like to see what people do with these. Hell, I'd like to see what I could do with one of these.
That's more or less what I cobbled together with a CPU+dGPU before Llano was available. The performance in games easily rivals or surpasses consoles, while the multimedia/HD media performance vastly eclipses anything else you can buy.
Great Review. I'm tired of obsolete X86 benchmarks. Multimedia is what this design is for, and it's what the average consumer looks for. Does it play my HD video flawlessly? Can my kid play WOW? Flash content? That's what people are into, at least where performance matters.
I also think the A6-5400 is compelling for under $70. I could see building a really good HTPC with that, or really any system that I'd build for a person that just needs a good performing efficient small form factor PC. I know I'll be building around that at least a couple of times in the near future.
AMD doesn’t seem to market these chips to content creation professionals at all, which is a shame. These might actually make the perfect workstation processors for a large portion of the low- to mid-range content creation world.
The AMD A10 is easily an upgrade for any enthusiast using the Phenom II, if not in terms of raw performance/clock, but in maximum achievable frequency.
Benchmarks went up significantly for me going from a Phenom II X6 1100T to this APU. All of my games are running better as the CPU bottleneck has been loosened up a bit.
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I'd like to see what people do with these. Hell, I'd like to see what I could do with one of these.
I also think the A6-5400 is compelling for under $70. I could see building a really good HTPC with that, or really any system that I'd build for a person that just needs a good performing efficient small form factor PC. I know I'll be building around that at least a couple of times in the near future.
Also curious, why an unlocked APU? People wanting to overclock (gaming/benchmarks) don't get APU processors.
Radeon 6670 and 6570 pair.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love these APUs. AMD dominates this market. I can see my HTPC and Server using APU processors for years to come.