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    Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Competent choice for your next mainstream build?
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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Another good review - any chance of Hexus reviewing the A10-5700 or even the A6-5400K??

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    I'm looking forward to the A6-5400K review, as it appears to have higher 3d performance than it ought to based on the hardware available to it.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    Another good review - any chance of Hexus reviewing the A10-5700 or even the A6-5400K??
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    ... the A10-5700 may just fit that bill, though its review story will be told a different day.
    Looks like a "probably" to me Although the A6-5400K would be an interesting review ... can we have one? Please?

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Disappointed by its idle power draw
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    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Most reviews show it idling at lower draw than Llano, so as Tarinder says in the review that might be an artefact of the motherboard used. 30W is still pretty good for an entire system...

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Thanks for the review. The overclocking result was a little misleading, because you've used the faster RAM and you've already showed on the previous page that this by itself increases performance, yet the graphs show the figures with the slower RAM for the non-overclocked CPU.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    Looks like a "probably" to me Although the A6-5400K would be an interesting review ... can we have one? Please?
    Oops!!

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    What Hexus should do is compare those CPU's with one distracted GPU to show how much difference CPU makes in games. Not only using integrated GPU's

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Good review! I hope Hexus use the A75 chipset for the reviews of the lower power AMD APUs they review and not the most expensive A85.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Good review but it is missing one of my favourite features of old Hexus reviews, bang4buck analysis.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD A8-5600K APU

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    30W is still pretty good for an entire system...
    True, true. I'm getting a little too obsessed with making the ultimate low power box these days.

    Given that I just want something under the TV for Youtube and 1080p video, even underclocked this shouldn't have an issue.

    Seriously considering this and a PicoPSU.

    I wonder what the A4 5300 FM2 pulls at idle?
    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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