AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[kalniel]

BTW,it seems Hexus and Anandtech do not have Richland reviews out yet for some reason!

Gaming/GPU review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7032/a...-8670d-hd-4600

Richland does very well, though more thorough review once he's back from travelling apparently.

[DanceswithUnix]

They're A8s and A10s with gimped GPUs. They say on the box that they require a discreet graphics card. The video-outs on the boards would just be mothballed.

Exactly. Mothballed is pointless and dumb.

I have run plenty of systems with minimal graphics in the past. If I got one of these Athlons, I need to add a £20 graphics card.

In my current system, I had a graphics card fail. I used the 790 chipset graphics until a replacement turned up. Can't game on that, but I could at least get on the web and order a replacement.


It also annoys me that there is bound to still be integrated graphics buried in AM3+ chipsets, but only the now ancient 760G seems to be available with that feature.

Edit to add: I think what rubs me the wrong way is that it feels like we have lost options/flexability in recent motherboards.

[DanceswithUnix]

Gaming/GPU review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7032/a...-8670d-hd-4600

Richland does very well, though more thorough review once he's back from travelling apparently.

Well that is an interesting snippet:

"AMD is proud of its valiation on the A10-6800K, any parts that won't pass at DDR3-2133 are demoted to lower end SKUs"

so don't buy low end parts then if you want to OC!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Mobile Kaveri might support DDR4:

http://translate.google.com.hk/trans...p%3Fid%3D75418

Gaming/GPU review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7032/a...-8670d-hd-4600

Richland does very well, though more thorough review once he's back from travelling apparently.

That would explain it!!

Edit!!

More pictures of Kaveri:

http://www.computerbase.de/news/2013...ge-kaveri-apu/

Kaveri running Devil May Cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=l94Di2wSPCY

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

AMD Computex presentation including Kaveri:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=ueHW0bJuZPQ



AMD might partner with Baidu for servers:

http://www.streetinsider.com/Insider..._client=intbro

Edit!!

AMD is looking to supply CPUs for Indian tablets:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/t...w/20455859.cms

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

A picture has appeared of the next generation HD7970 replacement:

http://boards.4chan.org/g/res/34411523

Edit!!

HP is releasing budget Kabini laptops with 1080P screens:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/computer-...barrier-219205

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Silvermont based motherboards are revealed:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7048/s...z-z3770-leaked

It will be interesting to see how Jaguar competes with them.

[jimbouk]

HP is releasing budget Kabini laptops with 1080P screens:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/computer-...barrier-219205

If they can manage decent battery life then it's going to be time to dust of the credit card!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

FM2+ A88X motherboard spotted:

http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/act...ur-kaveri.html

[glitch]

So...it seams no Kaveri for FM2 ...

[potatochip]

I am little confused, i have read Kaveri will be fm2 compatible, but its still slated as fm3? Will using an fm2 board affect performance?

[HalloweenJack]

http://wccftech.com/asus-shows-a88xm...kaveri-apus-2/

[watercooled]

Seems like compatibility is similar to that between AM3 and AM3+, which makes sense given the + designation.

Still, I wonder if there are any real reasons they had to break compatibility? Intel have been doing it needlessly for ages, I hope AMD aren't going that way.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/news.php?newsid=5659

[glitch]

Seems like compatibility is similar to that between AM3 and AM3+, which makes sense given the + designation.

Still, I wonder if there are any real reasons they had to break compatibility? Intel have been doing it needlessly for ages, I hope AMD aren't going that way.

If the pictures of Kaveri linked by CAT in post #1588 are real, Kaveri has two extra pins that cant fit in current FM2 motherboards unless you hammer it.

I'm a little disappointed by AMD, hope this socket change will bring something worthy.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Whats with the lack of Richland reviews by Hexus?? They seem to be reviewing a million GTX770 cards.