AMD A10-7850K and discrete GPU

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THINKorthogonal

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I'm considering getting an AMD A10-7850. First and foremost, I'm not a big gamer...mostly wanted it for streaming from the web and some video editing. The price at Microcenter is so good that if I decide to get it, I'm also considering getting a discrete GPU so that I can run 2 monitors and an HDTV. Any suggestions for a good pairing with this CPU for around $100? Or, is the APU on this chip sufficient to run 3 monitors and stream HD content from the web? any help would be appreciated!
 
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ethereal essence

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I would say get an AMD Athlon x4 760k or wait for the kaveri athlons if you are going with a discrete gpu. As for the gpu pairing, if you are looking to stream to 3 monitors and a tv at around that price, a 7750 should do ok. If you get the athlon, you'd have more money to spend and be able to get a GTX 650 TI Boost (if you can find one) or a 7790/7850.

Pretty much all the gains from moving to a small manufacturing process was made on the iGPU. There is very little to no difference between kaveri and the older richland in terms of cpu performance.
 
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THINKorthogonal

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I believe the new Kevari CPUs with iAPU are supposed to have a big boost when paired with a discrete GPU...just not sure which GPU would be most bang for the buck.
 
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There was a Youtube video of the AMD A10 7850k running Thief 4 beautifully across 3 monitors on a dedicated R9 290...should be plenty of power.
 
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bernardblack

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Never mind, I guess the below poster was right. Sounds like it needs to be crossfired with a discrete 240-250 (and maybe 260x) for dual graphics output...that's weird because I thought I recalled seeing some ITX FM2 board with dual HDMI for this purpose.
 
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just putting it out there,I have read an article that having the iGPU of the 7850k CAN improve performance with a discrete card. Obviously,it needs to be HSA compliant and there are likely not many things out there that are right now.

Here is the article: http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Fully-Enabling-A10-7850K-while-Utilizing-Standalone-GPU

Take its case as you see fit,I personally think its a good idea to keep the R7 gfx enabled. I have mine on,with 512 MB of memory allocated while using an R9 285. When my RAM upgrade comes in and I bump my system up to 16GB,I will likely allocate 2GB,just for the hell of it. At least 1GB.
 
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