Advice on APU Set up

Andyk-9

Andyk-9

Andyk-9

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Hi guys..

I have been looking around on OC forums for cheap under 500 pounds entry level gaming and found a few posts that were to my interest. I am after a system that will play Arma 3 but due to my budget ( Wifes ) i will not be able to afford a better system till after Christmas is out of the way. So i gathered, for now i will get the following

AMD A8-6600K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD660KWOHLBOX) £99.95

TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £74.99

Gigabyte F2A75M-HD2 AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £57.98

OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99

NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case £39.95

Sub Total : £269.05
Shipping : £11.75
VAT : £56.16

Total : £336.96

Now my question is. The difference between what everyone keeps suggesting A10 5800K and the one i have listed above is the A8 6600K Has HD 8570D, 844MHz Core speed, 256 Stream Processors, yet the A10 5800K Has HD 7660D, 800MHz Core speed, 384 Stream Processors. Does the stream processors make a big difference??? As the prices are the same.

Again i am on a very low budget and am eager to play Arma3 so i just want to get a computer now. With the above price i cant grumble. I just hope it is playable.

I will be upgrading after we get xmas out of the way. I will cut my losses

Thank you for taking the time to read this

Kind Regards

Andy
 
You'd be much better with the 5800k if going for an AMD APU, won't have as much overclocking headroom on the CPU, but it's a stronger GPU.

Richland is just refreshed Trinity, higher clock speeds but everything else is pretty much the same.
 
So it was pointless for AMD to even come out with Richland with such little, noticeable performance from the Trinity.

Are the APU's any good for todays games. Again im not looking for high details just something that is able to play the game that is playable..

Regards


Andy
 
A reasonable bump in CPU clock speed I guess, and there is more OC headroom. I don't really understand why it got a new name though... :confused:

Built a friend a setup using an A8 5600k with some 2133mhz DDR3, only gaming at 1366x768 but was impressed with how well it coped.
Considering an ITX A10 set-up for myself. :)
 
Might be an idea to spend a little more on the PSU and case, so that after christmas you can re-use them in the new build. That RAM you've picked should be good to transfer over too. (Be wary of the height though depending on what cooler you're planning to use in the future)
 
Isn't the next line of APUs, which come with considerable improvements over previous lines, coming out at the end of this year or at the start of next year?

From what i have seen, its definitely worth waiting for.
 
I have read up on the next gen of APU and apparently its a big increase. As i need something for now im going to stick with the A10 5600K..

The build i will be getting after xmas will have a liquid cooler so i think the Ram should be fine.. I will change the case to the Antec 300 as i have had this in the past and remains one of my favorite cases.

I would have thought the PSU would be ok for a AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6350 running the above memory, 120gb Samsung 830 SSD and a HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5???? Im not going to be running 2 gpu's

Thanks for your replies guys

Regards
 
After continuously re reading posts here and looking at other options i have decided and going for the following.

AMD 6300 AM3+ CPU Six Core 3.5Ghz (Turbo 4.1Ghz)
ASUS M5A78L-M USB3 HDMI Motherboard
CORSAIR VENGEANCE 8GB 1600MHZ MEMORY
Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7770 OC
OCZ 550W ZS Series (Although Debating on this)
Akasa Blade Windowed Midi Tower Case

The MB,CPU,Ram are a bundle package - Cheap & Cheerful
The GPU seems to be an ok card after reading so many reviews on it and will do what i need it to do. Again im not after top range.
Case looks great.

Although AMD sites recommend 500w / above for the GPU would a Corsair Builder Series CXM 430W Modular 80 PLUS run the above with 2 500GB Hard drives?

All this will come just under 400 pound slighly more then what i was going to pay for the APU system but i have better..

Thank you all for your replies


Andy
 
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