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I have an APU! 7850K with a 1gb 250 Asus video card running Dual Graphics.

Potent little machine and it keeps up in the gaming department very well. It's been my backup computer and LAN Party computer for guests when they come over, it's been used as a server and for various other things!

Only issue i've had with it is the Corsair H80 burnt out prematurely , seems like the pump stopped working and I didn't get any warranty on it.

I was running an amd a8-3850 apu until a few months ago. I got it on release, was decent, pooped out on me for some reason. :/

I picked up a Microcenter bundle for 80 bucks (pretax) for one of the kids...Minecraft and the like on a 12x10 monitor. Single module dual thread CPU is basically a 'hyperthreaded' single core, right?
I've got a set of ddr2133 or 2400 in another rig that this one could better put to use, then will oc the gpu clock and turbo multi's on the cpu cores. Stock is 45W but I've got an old all Al Alpine7 style cooler on it. I'm hoping for 3.9 turbo cpu and 900-1000 on the gpu clock at 2133.


I've two others in service....a Trinity A8K pulling HTPC duty and a Llano A6 tricore in another kid's gaming rig. Both are running at 1866 but otherwise stock clocked.

So far I have used 5 APU's for building workstations, 2 with the Trinity a-8 5600k and 3 with the Richland a-8 66k, Each has a 120gb Evo SSD and 8 gigs of Ballistix 1600 Ram, I have used both MSI and Gigabyte Motherboards with those builds, For what we use them for they have been great little rigs. Most of our work is done off our Servers, Hence no need for huge Storage on them, Just basically using the SSD's as boot drives and daily use light business programs. I also built my father in law a rig with the Richland 66k, Again for his needs a very nice rig. So far they have all been very stable and I have no concerns using them for more of our workstations we will be upgrading.

I just upgraded the motherboard and apu, I now have an a8-6600k on an asrock fm2a88x extreme6+ board, same apu, just 1 more module in it.
the upgrade had nothing to do with the apu itself, it was the motherboard feature set, or, should I say lack of feature set.
the old motherboard was sata 0.5, I think and no usb 3.0, only 2.0.
the new board had sata 3.0 and usb 3.0.
I still need to clock my ram up to 2133 to get the most from it and clock the apu up and then I'll be all set.

Here's a little peek CD ....... 4.5GHZ 3+ hours prime. you can see my temps on a short run with prime. I have been pretty impressed so far even gave it a run on a video encode. What does this mean for real work, well here is a movie I did on both my FX8350 and the A10 7850K both of these we done at stock settings, when I crank the FX it would not be as close as it is.

A10 7850K ...... Stock settings .... 55 min

[11/15/14] BD Rebuilder v0.49.05 (beta)
[19:43:07] Source: X-MEN_DAYS_OF_FUTURE_PAST_00800
- Input BD size: 32.96 GB
- Approximate total content: [02:11:35.345]
- Target BD size: 22.95 GB
- Windows Version: 6.1 [7601]
- MOVIE-ONLY mode enabled
- Auto Quality: Good (Very Fast), ABR
- Decoding/Frame serving: X264/LAVF
- Audio Settings: AC3=0 DTS=0 HD=1 Kbs=640
[19:43:07] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [19:43:07] Processing: VID_01952 (1 of 1)
- [19:43:07] Extracting A/V streams [VID_01952]
- [19:51:24] Reencoding video [VID_01952]
- Source Video: MPEG-4 (AVC), 1920x1080
- Rate/Length: 23.976fps, 189,299 frames
- Bitrate: 16,132 Kbs
- [19:51:24] Reencoding: VID_01952, Pass 1 of 1
- [20:45:56] Video Encode complete
- [20:45:56] Processing audio tracks
- Track 4352 (eng): Keeping original audio
- Track 4353 (eng): Keeping original audio
[20:45:56]PHASE ONE complete
[20:45:56]PHASE TWO - Rebuild Started
- [20:45:56] Rebuilding BD file Structure
[20:48:10] - Encode and Rebuild complete
- WORKFILES folder removed.
[20:48:10] JOB: X-MEN_DAYS_OF_FUTURE_PAST finished.

FX8350 ..... stock settings..... 58 min

[10/23/14] BD Rebuilder v0.49.05 (beta)
[07:22:45] Source: X-MEN_DAYS_OF_FUTURE_PAST_00800
- Input BD size: 32.96 GB
- Approximate total content: [02:11:35.345]
- Target BD size: 22.95 GB
- Windows Version: 6.1 [7601]
- MOVIE-ONLY mode enabled
- Auto Quality: Good (Very Fast), ABR
- SHUTDOWN at completion enabled
- Decoding/Frame serving: DirectShow [3-way]
- Audio Settings: AC3=0 DTS=0 HD=1 Kbs=640
[07:22:45] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [07:22:45] Processing: VID_01952 (1 of 1)
- [07:22:45] Extracting A/V streams [VID_01952]
- [07:26:39] Reencoding video [VID_01952]
- Source Video: MPEG-4 (AVC), 1920x1080
- Rate/Length: 23.976fps, 189,299 frames
- Bitrate: 16,132 Kbs
- [07:26:39] Reencoding: VID_01952, Pass 1 of 1
- [08:08:11] Video Encode complete
- [08:08:11] Processing audio tracks
- Track 4352 (eng): Keeping original audio
- Track 4353 (eng): Keeping original audio
[08:08:11]PHASE ONE complete
[08:08:11]PHASE TWO - Rebuild Started
- [08:08:11] Rebuilding BD file Structure
[08:16:14] - Encode and Rebuild complete
- WORKFILES folder removed.
[08:16:14] JOB: X-MEN_DAYS_OF_FUTURE_PAST finished.

core clock to core clock, the a10's are proving to be stout.
I have had my a6-6400k up to 5.2 and was pretty impressed with it.
I have to start on this one, perhaps after thanksgiving and see what she'll give.

I have not figured it out yet once I get over this 4.5GHZ it freezes on me. I can boot into windows easily enough but once I do anything it freezes on me. Lately I just don't have the time to play much. I did get one run of HWBOT Prime in at 4.6GHZ but it would freeze when took my screen capture. They certainly are a little bit of a different beast.

at 1.459 it's not vcore.

We are now proud owners of an Athlon 5150. She's a good little workhorse. Weak as a lamb but enough power to do day to day stuff.

Hey all I got the AMD Kabini 5350 does that count?? Its overclocked to 2.6Ghz and is a great little HTPC/Media Server. Couldnt be happier.

I don't see athlon fitting as an apu.
what' do you guys think?

caddi daddi said:

I don't see athlon fitting as an apu.
what' do you guys think?

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Discrete graphics? Not!

How is that 5350, performance wise? I went with an A6 Kaveri for this rig as they were paradoxically cheaper than the Kabinis, the former getting bundle discounts at MC.
I'm running this one at 4.3 cpu/ 960 gpu/ 2133 ram at default voltages.

I'm a bit suprised, i have my a8 as the only thing in the house and i can shove whatever gpu i want in the rig and everything is as it should be.
I can shove in my hd7770, a gtx 760, a gtx 770 and even xfire my 7970's with the rig, i can't wait for my 290 to get here and see if it can feed it.
with the beefier cards the cpu clock has to come up but it seems to be ok at it.

They are a different breed of chip for sure CD ....... certainly take a different approach in OCing them then the FX did. Memory seems to be a real big key factor as well as the bus speed to get your NB to OC steady, or at least that is what is starting to look like with my chip currently up to 4.7GHZ though I think I need a bit more cooling.

My single playing thought process got me a A8-6600K on the Gigabyte F2A88X-D3H and since it had 4 or 6 gpu somethings I tried playing my Steam games sans dedicated video card, quickly realized I had made another bad choice I added the MSI Radeon R9 270 Gaming card. Playing Crysis 2 and BF4 at 20-30 fps is no joy, BF4 slowed to stopping many times but I played my library anyway. Metro LL was playable but soon I was thinking about making another bad choice - buying a new system with a FX-9570 with my new 290 Gaming card, 4GB and 1007 oc'd core does wonders with my current playing set, all my games are now at least a solid 60 frames or better, have yet to play BF4 but I've decided to wait and see if I can be happy with my current setup, so no Cyberpower yet. I ask our APU community if the 6600K is going to sputter and freeze when I finally do play BF4, is the 6600 the bottleneck in my system? Is there hope that the 6600K + 290 + 8GB 2133 vengeanceLP with a good CS650M watts will let me play my games happily? I've been playing Crysis 2 on the highest settings and it's a steady 100 fps! Would getting a A10 APU really make a difference, since spending another $300 for that 290 has made all my games playable and they look great using the MSI gaming app. I'm poor and I told myself the $300 for the 290 was all that reason should permit. So unless somebody can convince me that sinking more money into a system that I should not have bought in the first place, I'm sitting on this system for as long as I don't break it. Last thought, I've had this ASUS 24" monitor for @5yrs and it still does the job, but with the 290 is it possible that I can get a larger monitor, say 27-30 in. If someone can recommend a cheap larger monitor I'd be set, I figured a budget system only gets a 24" but I've always wanted a good reason to go large and now with the 290 ....I'm going to research this and will update. This forum is great I've been kicking myself ever since I got this APU and just the second time I'm online I find this thread, sympatico.

A8-3850 De-lidded as depicted. Runs OCed 3200mhz daily from 2.9ghz 111 reference clock.

The board is Asus F1A75-V PRO.

Faster than a FX-4300 at similar clocks having the 32nm Phenom type core config.

It's a good Cpu. Been holding up daily since release.

ShrimpBrime said:

A8-3850 De-lidded as depicted. Runs OCed 3200mhz daily from 2.9ghz 111 reference clock.

The board is Asus F1A75-V PRO.

Faster than a FX-4300 at similar clocks having the 32nm Phenom type core config.

It's a good Cpu. Been holding up daily since release.

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Of course it's delidded, it's a Shrimpy chip.

I've had an a6-7400k for a little while now as an HTPC. I intended to just leave it as a media center, but of course I can't just do that - so I've been playing FO: New Vegas for a while on it. It runs great at 1080p, with most settings maxed. I have a mild overclock of 4.2 ghz on the cpu end, and 800 mhz on the GPU. I'm still playing around with the ram overclock, but so far haven't gotten it stable.

I'm pretty excited to see what the refresh will bring this summer - I might swap this out for an A8 or something.