Reviews - AMD A10-6800K (32nm Richland)

I look at these chips in hope that they are a significant upgrade to my 6! year old core 2 quad and the answer is no it performs about the same if not a bit slower!
Which is a bit of a problem for amd as most people these days will be upgrading from an existing system rather than buying there first pc and will be looking for a significant jump. Not so long ago even budget chips were a jump from any 3+ year old chip. But anyone that has a true quad (pre dozer) this is likely to be a downgrade.

Those that have existing dual core machines probably run a lot of single threaded apps (and there is a lot of those out there) and again this may end up being a downgrade as it's single thread performance is so laughable despite it's high clock speed.

Is it possible Hexus can review the Athlon II X4 760K?? It looks quite a decent budget offering especially for the budget overclocker!!

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Originally Posted by scaryjim

Don't suppose you've got a 6700 hiding in the back room have you hexus? Be nice to see that compared to the 5800k & i3 - should have very similar performance but be much more impresive on the power draw side of things... :)

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Hexus are going to review it as they mentioned this in the article!! :p

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Originally Posted by keithwalton

I look at these chips in hope that they are a significant upgrade to my 6! year old core 2 quad and the answer is no it performs about the same if not a bit slower!
Which is a bit of a problem for amd as most people these days will be upgrading from an existing system rather than buying there first pc and will be looking for a significant jump. Not so long ago even budget chips were a jump from any 3+ year old chip. But anyone that has a true quad (pre dozer) this is likely to be a downgrade.

Those that have existing dual core machines probably run a lot of single threaded apps (and there is a lot of those out there) and again this may end up being a downgrade as it's single thread performance is so laughable despite it's high clock speed.

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I think you are missing the point of the APUs, if you want to beat your old core2 quad then get an 8350 for not too much more.

Anyway the point is get an intel cpu + graphics card which performs as well and then look at the price...

These are great chips, ideal for budget builds and htpcs, they are not made to take the all out performance crown.

This is ideal for a HTPC and it allows a little gaming as well.

Can I squeeze one of these into a Shuttle SN95 chassis on a Zotac A55 mini-itx mobo?

Why use a NVidia card, e all knowwill be better with the intel cpu's, why not a radeon card, to xfire the apu's , then I think we wll see more performance, all I can say is intel bias