News - AMD to cut prices of some FM1 and FM2 APUs

[HEXUS]

More price competitive than ever.

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[Badbonji]

Wow, for a low budget build I can't see why anyone would pick Intel now, they only become attractive at higher prices when the relative costs are much closer (large SSDs, discrete cards etc).

[Agent]

I'm sold. New low power media centre for me!

[Jimbo75]

Jesus christ thats low pricing.

[scaryjim]

tbh £25 was a no-brainer for a Sempron 140 for me. A similar price for a single module Piledriver with 6450-equivalent graphics? Hell yeah Love to see some gaming benchmarks at 720p for the IGP in an A4-5300...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Even if you add 20% VAT to the A4-5300 price that is around £22 to £23!

[Brewster0101]

AMD is going into value for money overdrive. This does sound good for the up coming piledriver CPU. With AMD making losses , AMD need to shift units, lots of units. They need to take sales from Intel in the low and mid market.

[Jimbo75]

The 5400K isn't far off the old 3870K in gaming, I'd guess the 5300 isn't all that far off the A6-3500's gaming performance. Pretty staggering for $30 tbh.

[MustardCutter]

Now where are the mini-itx boards to put these in?!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Now where are the mini-itx boards to put these in?!

There is this one but it is on pre-order:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=MB-102-AK

[pp05]

How big is the difference between 4250 (785/880 based onboard) vs HD 7410D/HD 7660D graphics ?

[scaryjim]

4250 has 40 VLIW5 shaders, like a 2400/3450. 7410 has 128 VLIW4 shaders (probably equivalent to ~ 150 VLIW5 shaders). 7660 has (iirc) 384 VLIW4 shaders.

In other words, they're a completely different class.

I believe the 7xx0 have an updated media block too

[heXuser]

Now where are the mini-itx boards to put these in?!

There is this one but it is on pre-order:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=MB-102-AK

That Pre-order deal has been over a week or two now... I just hope AMD are not giving APU`s away for free from not seeing much interest by motherboard not being available for sale = no sales.

AMD should wait for motherboards B4 dropping prices.. They did same on GPU and the HD7xx0 series are now faster than nvidia but are cheaper..Doh

As som1 interested in past AMD stocks, this worries me

Edit LOL i forgot my main point = where the hell are the decent motherboards e.g. M-ATX and M-ITX

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Edit LOL i forgot my main point = where the hell are the decent motherboards e.g. M-ATX and M-ITX

There are loads of mATX FM2 motherboards available. I count 8 on Scan and 10 on OcUK.

[Agent]

Still want an ITX board myself.

The one linked looks nice, but I'm at a loss why more manufacturers don't build them for (and include) the power bricks in the form of laptop ones.

ASUS have done it in the past with Atom based systems.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Still want an ITX board myself.

The one linked looks nice, but I'm at a loss why more manufacturers don't build them for (and include) the power bricks in the form of laptop ones.

ASUS have done it in the past with Atom based systems.

It has been the case with AMD for years,that mini-ITX motherboards do not come out for yonks!