AMD Athlon X4 750K

Akagi · 14 Nov 2012 at 05:07

Where on earth did this spring up from? I haven't heard any rumours or speculation about these chips at all.

For the price, the specifications seem very decent. Will look up benchmarks in a few minutes.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-330-AM

And the 740

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-334-AM&groupid=701&catid=1967&subcat=1946

I must admit I am a little confused as to why these chips exist, there is such a bounty of quad core AMD chips available. Right now you could go to the OcUK store and buy a new Athlon X4, a Trinity A8, a Trinity A10, a LLano A6, a LLano A8, a Bulldozer FX-4, a Piledriver FX-4 or a Phenom II x4... If i'm honest, I couldn't even tell you which chips outbench which anymore.

PCZ · 14 Nov 2012 at 06:36

I have to agree there are so many AMD chips.

OCUK have made a mistake in the description of this chip though.
It doesn't have a GPU built in.

So it is FM2 without the onboard GPU, and an unlocked multi.

Davedree · 14 Nov 2012 at 07:27

yeah been waiting a while for these to come through to market, but the 750k is too pricey was expecting it to be around £50.

Akagi · 14 Nov 2012 at 07:36

PCZ said:
I have to agree there are so many AMD chips.

OCUK have made a mistake in the description of this chip though.
It doesn't have a GPU built in.

So it is FM2 without the onboard GPU, and an unlocked multi.

Yeah I noticed that mistake there

Beren · 14 Nov 2012 at 09:00

Could it be production issues on the A10? It does have the same 4 mb cache... which is one of the major bottlenecks in it's performance as far as I can tell. It does seem a bit odd when you could get a quad core piledriver for not a lot more which would be far more capable.

passey89 · 14 Nov 2012 at 09:05

yeh seems like a pretty pointless cpu if going fm2 isnt it for an APU not a CPU?

If you want a cpu piledriver offers much better performance.

linwelin · 14 Nov 2012 at 10:06

wasn't that long ago there was a mild selection of AMD CPU's here now there is tons!

They need to knock out 1 good cpu that can compete with intel

Cooper · 14 Nov 2012 at 10:22

I guess they couldn't bring themselves to scrap the mountain of failed FM2 chips with borked GPU's.

Akagi · 14 Nov 2012 at 14:00

Bulldozer, Llano, Athlon and Phenom II need to go away... Piledriver and Trinity should stay.

Davedree · 15 Nov 2012 at 02:29

acme15 said:
Bulldozer, Llano, Athlon and Phenom II need to go away... Piledriver and Trinity should stay.

Trinity should stay, everything else is poop

Akagi · 15 Nov 2012 at 02:54

Davedree said:
Trinity should stay, everything else is poop

Piledriver is a very good productivity chip for the price.

humbug · 15 Nov 2012 at 07:05

acme15 said:
Piledriver is a very good productivity chip for the price.

Some people only think of Work Of Warcraft at 1280 x 768 when considering a new chip

passey89 · 15 Nov 2012 at 07:30

humbug said:
Some people only think of Work Of Warcraft at 1280 x 768 when considering a new chip

lol. im getting 130fps in wow with my 8320 and that was when its at stock.

after 120fps it doesn't matter anyway as my 120hz monitor wont make any difference.

ubersonic · 15 Nov 2012 at 08:26

passey89 said:
lol. im getting 130fps in wow with my 8320 and that was when its at stock.

after 120fps it doesn't matter anyway as my 120hz monitor wont make any difference.

Actually after 60fps it doesn't matter in WoW, that's what its designed for, any higher and you start running into graphical anomalies (i.e the foggy island north of Icecrown).

oweneades · 15 Nov 2012 at 08:28

passey89 said:
yeh seems like a pretty pointless cpu if going fm2 isnt it for an APU not a CPU?

If you want a cpu piledriver offers much better performance.

The 750K is a piledriver (Trinity) based CPU:

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-Athlon II X4 750K.html

Effectivly it is a A10 XXXXK without the onboard GPU (or it's there but is defective).

Martini1991 · 15 Nov 2012 at 08:29

Don't really see the point of this CPU, it's not really practical given the socket.

Akagi · 15 Nov 2012 at 10:58

Martini1991 said:
Don't really see the point of this CPU, it's not really practical given the socket.

Agreed. Perhaps there will be some dirt cheap FM2 motherboards released without the unnecessary support for an on-chip IGP just for these Athlons. Though I doubt it.

Martini1991 · 15 Nov 2012 at 11:04

Even then, can't help but think you'd be shooting yourself in the foot to buy it, upgrade path, you couldn't simply slot in an octo core, you'd be limited to an SR APU, or hope they make an SR Athlon like this.

Think I'd just get a Phenom II

NeostarNeko · 15 Nov 2012 at 16:42

I thought about this too when it appeared, the A10 with it's built-in GPU is far better value

humbug · 16 Nov 2012 at 02:56

It is a pretty pointless chip...