Josh Weston
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We've covered this APU already, but that was at completely stock settings. Let's see what it can do when we turn up the clocks!
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AMD A10-6800K Richland Overclocked Review
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chrismjurd
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what a budget beast that is 
vorticalbox
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for anyone after one the AMD A10-6800K is £106.79 on aria ATM
grassman
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Something that is easily noticeable is games with high res textures don't see a large boost in performance(10-15%), While older games with less complicated textures are seeing massive 30-50% increases. I am inclined to believe with the evidence shown that there is too much Space + Time between the CPU and Ram. Kaveri just got a lot more exciting xD
Glad the OC + Stock reviews ended up happening in this matter, It really shows how big of a hit you are taking when you do not overclock.
Glad the OC + Stock reviews ended up happening in this matter, It really shows how big of a hit you are taking when you do not overclock.
NeverBackDown
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Considerng Richland was more of a tweak off of Trinity; these results show just how great APUs can be in the future.
Mgutierrez33
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I am not overly shocked by these results, but I'm incredibly pleased nonetheless. Great little chip AMD has produced, and a great review. Now I have yet another build arrangement to play around with for people who are on a srs budget .
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iiBetrayforAR
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Proper GPU, no not really, but if you want a low end GPU (Not exactly which one(s)), you can pair the dGPU with the iGPU, for a sort of Crossfire configuration. But pretty much getting a real GPU is a better idea at that point lol.If you want to run a proper GPU in your rig, is there any reason to get an APU for that setup? Or a similarly priced AMD CPU would perform better in that config?
Nice review, if I had a spare $500 I would do a rig with one of these and try to make a profit off of it on eBay.
MicroAlex
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Thanks for the reply.
True, heard about that as well, but from what I know that hybrid crossfire setup is not worth it, maybe I am wrong. Just curious
In my mind APUs with proper GPU's make sense in laptops, I have seen some MSI gaming laptops with top end APU's and a 7970m under the hood... and the price is so attractive! I mean comparing that configuration to an Intel based one is like day and night. Curious if the performance is really that great in real world scenario to justify the paring of such components together.
Currently I am rocking a bit dated Asus multimedia laptop with an Intel 720qm and 5730m in it (still lovin it), but benchmarks suggest that the APU's processor and graphics power surpassed my config. Quite sad, yet I am happy to see AMD moving up.
NeverBackDown
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The Mxxx GPUs in laptops only kick in when doing intensive tasks(gaming). The iGPU is used for everything else. At least i'm 90% sure thats how it works.
Initialised
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With the A10 5800K I found that increasing the RAM to 2133MHz got bigger gains than adding a 6450 and cost less. Once you move to Hybrid Crossfire the gains from increasing RAM speed are more marginal. Alternatively, once you increase the RAM speed there's no point adding a 6450. The A10 6800K and A8 6600K wont work with the 6450 so I couldn't repeat the test. The A10 6800K and 6670 performance is similar so you'd expect 75-100% improvement with a Hybrid setup so long as you match the APU and GPU core and memory clocks and frame buffer to keep Microstutter at bay.
For example AMD APU @4.56GHz (120x38), iGPU @1.2GHz, 8GB RAM (2GB dedicated to GPU) @1200MHz (2400MHz DDR), 6670 GPU @ 1200MHz 2GB vRAM @1200MHz.
TBH it's a lot of tuning for a budget system that's best suited to gaming on a 720p screen and there's no guarantee that the 6670 will OC as well as you need to get it to match up with the APU after buying top end RAM.
For example AMD APU @4.56GHz (120x38), iGPU @1.2GHz, 8GB RAM (2GB dedicated to GPU) @1200MHz (2400MHz DDR), 6670 GPU @ 1200MHz 2GB vRAM @1200MHz.
TBH it's a lot of tuning for a budget system that's best suited to gaming on a 720p screen and there's no guarantee that the 6670 will OC as well as you need to get it to match up with the APU after buying top end RAM.
jspurgeon07
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Guides
At the end it says we have to learn the "oc3d way," I'm ready to do so, but i cannot for the life of me fined those guides. I googled, i searched the sight, I searched the forums, I looked at the .tv thing... Where the heck are they? I want that GPU boost!
At the end it says we have to learn the "oc3d way," I'm ready to do so, but i cannot for the life of me fined those guides. I googled, i searched the sight, I searched the forums, I looked at the .tv thing... Where the heck are they? I want that GPU boost!
We did an Ivy Bridge guide mate but the theory works for all cpu's & apu's.
Its honestly not hard if you follow all the steps. Try looking at the front page of the site. If you looked at "the tv thing" you didnt look hard enough.
I hav bought a week ago 6670, amd a-10 680k, corsair h100, next phantom, fm2a55dgs rev2.7 patroit 8gb 1600 mhz ram and not a whole in ma pocket looks good to me lmao ma gf can clock this thing to 5.0 and graphic clock speeds do really well tbh get 45 fps on fraps with crysis 3 max setting on 1080p 32" tv
Grid 2 engine dont work for me get fps(48) but a nasty blue glitch as soon as you crash
Skyrim engine also is crap sever cpu lag issues on that least grid 2 you can play
Hope the 30th july graphics driver fixs this
Graphic clock goes all way to 900mhz cpu and 1000mhz memory on the auto slide bar crashs every time i increase mem but not cpu
When i get the better a85 chip n better ram this thing should fly only thing limiting ma clock is this, ps clock increase helps alot for loading times on sim3 and i sure as hell dont play that lol on 4gb graphics i got 34fps on cina beanch and 3.29 on cpu score but am findin best fps with apu @ 512 and hd6670 @ 2gb ddr3
Tbh im still playing with the clocks n such
and most probs are thats y a lack of info this thing is a hell of a lot of fun give me 6 months to go through the clocks lol
with normal apu grid 2 was 27 fps with 6670 + apu was 48 fps o i paid £26.06+4.1 postage for and extra 20 fps on avrage
the whole build cost was 65 for phantom case, cpu 110, board 40, ram like 50, h100 65, 6670 26
temp with h100 @5.0 was 76'c untill the fans speed went up then dropped to 60'c apu onboard was -6'c
now ive added the hd 6670 the graphic tems hit no more than 55'c
Grid 2 engine dont work for me get fps(48) but a nasty blue glitch as soon as you crash
Skyrim engine also is crap sever cpu lag issues on that least grid 2 you can play
Hope the 30th july graphics driver fixs this
Graphic clock goes all way to 900mhz cpu and 1000mhz memory on the auto slide bar crashs every time i increase mem but not cpu
When i get the better a85 chip n better ram this thing should fly only thing limiting ma clock is this, ps clock increase helps alot for loading times on sim3 and i sure as hell dont play that lol on 4gb graphics i got 34fps on cina beanch and 3.29 on cpu score but am findin best fps with apu @ 512 and hd6670 @ 2gb ddr3
Tbh im still playing with the clocks n such
and most probs are thats y a lack of info this thing is a hell of a lot of fun give me 6 months to go through the clocks lol
with normal apu grid 2 was 27 fps with 6670 + apu was 48 fps o i paid £26.06+4.1 postage for and extra 20 fps on avrage
the whole build cost was 65 for phantom case, cpu 110, board 40, ram like 50, h100 65, 6670 26
temp with h100 @5.0 was 76'c untill the fans speed went up then dropped to 60'c apu onboard was -6'c
now ive added the hd 6670 the graphic tems hit no more than 55'c
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