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Worth upgrading the A8-7600?

yannis76

yannis76

yannis76

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Hi,

I have been using this APU for a year now and plays everything fine apart from some games. Is it worth upgrading it to a higher end A10 and if yes which one?
One problem I face is that Fifa 15 or Elite Dangerous are a bit slow with this one even on lower settings.
And one more question: Do the new AMD cooling solutions fit in the Silverstone RVZ01?

Thx
 
Best to wait for the new Zen-based APUs imo. They should provide a bigger upgrade when they come. As it's stands you're not going to see much in the way of gains from current AMD offerings.
 
Whats the rest of your system specs?
If you can you'll see a far bigger increase by adding a discrete GPU if your budget allows.
 
depends - the A8 7680 - is basically 7700k just clocked a hair less - unless you grab the top - I'd consider that - and OC the crap out of it :D
 
Time for an add in GPU, an APU upgrade won't get you far a couple of FPS more but an add in card can really increase performance.

My daughters APU machine play games quite well when I popped in my r290 from my broken machine, of course an r290 is overkill as the CPU probably can't back it up but those or something similar is available secondhand and you'll get more than 5x the performance for the outlay of a new CPU which would get you no where near the performance of a decent discrete GPU, its unlikely a Zen APU would do it either and will come with much higher expense in board, memory and CPU.

My example 3d Mark

a10 5700 with iGPU http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11038535 (7660D is how iGPU shows up in windows)
same CPU with r290 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11044384

Compare link http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/11044384/fs/11038535/fs/11108910 including both of those and equally poor Intel CPU I used to test my board, though I did OC the 290 when in the Intel board, so not too fair, blimey my 8yr has more power than me at the moment :D

I could probably tune it more to be faster but I wasn't that interested, I was just after something functional and ran them out of interest :D You notice the A10 CPU seems weaker on the iGPU that with Discrete GPU, this is because I OC'd the GPU and the CPU and the stock heatsink could not contain it whereas discrete GPU disabled on iGPU and the stock cooler could contain it.

An A10-7850K is going to get you around 1400-1500 3dmarks in that same benchmark and your a8 will be a little slower unless you have tweaked the **** out of it due to clock speeds and less shaders.
 
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