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AMD Readies A10-7890K, A8-7690K and Athlon X4 880K Socket FM2+ Chips

Scougar said:
I didn't initially have a gpu, and I knew this would give me a stepping stone to one later.

880k will be soldered? Nice. Might have to take a serious look at that chip depending on how they review.
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Ah yeah that makes sense.

Yeah like the 7870K the 880K is soldered which reduces temps a bit. That's what gave the 7870K the clock speed extra headroom VS 7850K apparently.

I think the 880K would be pointless for you now as you already on a 7850K, but for someone looking at a new budget build, an 860K / 880K with FM2+ mobo is ideal. You get all modern chipset feature set and is a really cheap setup.
 
It probably would be pointless, but I like to push clock speeds when I play around until I find a comfortable place. Mine does seem to need quite high voltage to do 4.3/4.4 stably. I use a cm 212 evo cooler so it shouldn't really be as high.

I will be pretty interested in these depending on the turbo speeds.
 
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Kaveri A10-7870K.

Is this a great CPU?

Or go with an i5?

(No dedicated GPU)
 
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100% depends on what you are doing, and what kind of i5.

I'd not say the 7870k is a great CPU ever, it's a good CPU.
The 7800 is what you want for an ITX build, and only if you're on a budget.
 
People seem to have such a downer on AMD these days, but is it worth looking at them for a secondary gaming pc?

I'm looking at building one for gaming on a 1680x1050 monitor with a dedicated HD7970.
 
koolpc said:
Kaveri A10-7870K.

Is this a great CPU?

Or go with an i5?

(No dedicated GPU)
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What specific model of the i5? Some i5 iGPU's suck compared to Kaveri, so it is really important to make sure you know what you are buying.

Any reason to not go for a seperate CPU and dedicated card? (It might work out the same price and better performance)
 
Davedree said:
It's been 4 months where's my Carrizo laptop?
Oh that's right Amd paper launch mobile everything these days.

:D
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Not really. There are some 8800P laptops out there, but none that you'd want.

Manufacturers aren't interested in making an AMD option, and if they are, then they gimp the performance, making it an idiotic buy *cough*HP*cough*

It's really quite frustrating, as the 8800P, running at 35w, is the CPU I'd want in a laptop right now. When they're stuck at the lower TDP ranges though... They make no sense.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Not really. There are some 8800P laptops out there, but none that you'd want.

Manufacturers aren't interested in making an AMD option, and if they are, then they gimp the performance, making it an idiotic buy *cough*HP*cough*

It's really quite frustrating, as the 8800P, running at 35w, is the CPU I'd want in a laptop right now. When they're stuck at the lower TDP ranges though... They make no sense.
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They are hard to find and the 7800p uses the 384 gpu or crap screens and memory specs. You can't defend Amd on this, which means amd's attempt at mass production on a greater scale to provide income is nothing more than a paper launch.
For a company who is on death doors you'd expect to see wide adoption by oems regardless of whether they want to use Amd or not. It's not hard to market this soc in a decent 400-500 and 500-600 quid configuration.

All the oems were glad to use the A4 5000/Jaguar socs in plentiful supply.
Carrizo provides a nicely balanced soc and with hdmi2 output.
Yet of all the laptops i've seen (al of 2-4) aren't made to my specification.
 
I can't even find an AMD tablet/Laptop that I'd even consider buying.

For a Tablet it'd basically have to be nigh on close to my Surface 3 Pro's build quality, with at least a 1080p screen.

And same with a Laptop being close to my Ultrabook in terms of build and screen resolution.
 
Davedree said:
For a company who is on death doors you'd expect to see wide adoption by oems regardless of whether they want to use Amd or not. It's not hard to market this soc in a decent 400-500 and 500-600 quid configuration.
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Why would you expect to see that?
OEMs have no interest in AMD, apart from for the dirt low-end of the market. Intel had the market bought out years ago. I'd say both OEMs, and AMD are at fault here.

OEMs for pushing out baffling, compromised, PoS. And AMD, for not learning... They should have just got their own base spec 8800p laptop out, or not allowed OEMs to tweak the TDP.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Why would you expect to see that?
OEMs have no interest in AMD, apart from for the dirt low-end of the market. Intel had the market bought out years ago. I'd say both OEMs, and AMD are at fault here.

OEMs for pushing out baffling, compromised, PoS. And AMD, for not learning... They should have just got their own base spec 8800p laptop out, or not allowed OEMs to tweak the TDP.
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Because Carrizo is dirt cheap to produce and there's no supply and demand factors with the 28shp from GF, as far as I'm concerned they should have been churning these out. Carrizo is an execution towards making a medium spec soc with 720p capable graphics and h.265 and hdmi2. It's not perfect but in it's power envelope it still beats out Iris 6100 l4 cacheless. Amd cannot compete with iris pro 6200 l4 edram at 47w or above but Intel failed to get Broadwell down to the 35w envelope without harming iris graphics performance. At 15w-35w Amd have an advantage over Intel and Oems should be able to cope with 35w quite easily.

Agreed Amd should just make them in house, I've been saying this for the last 6+ years, since Llano.
 
Why would they churn them out though? OEMs just wouldn't use them.
Extremely frustrating, as I would happily move to a laptop that had one of these in (as long as it wasn't a plastic, terrible screen, mess).
 
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