AMD is reportedly planning to drop the prices of numerous Trinity APUs prior to the release of its upcoming "Richland" family of processors.
According to DigiTimes, AMD is reportedly planning to significantly reduce the price of a number of its Trinity APUs to "make room" for its "Richland" family of processors that are currently expected to arrive in June.
These price reductions are expected to range from 8 percent to 15 percent and include the A8-5600K, FX-6300 and FX-4300. Hardware.info further speculated that the price drop may have also been influenced by a desire to better compete with Intel's upcoming "Haswell" range of processors.
Although AMD has not yet provided any formal comment on this news or revealed the formal specifications of its next-generation of processors, the leaked "2013 Client Roadmap" displayed to the right indicates that one of the most important improvements will be an upgrade of the integrated graphics to the Radeon HD 8670D.
Faster clocks + lower watts + fast RAMs = mmm mmm good
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Anyone know how well the A8-5600k runs in Ubuntu and Windows 8?
Anyone know how well the A8-5600k runs in Ubuntu and Windows 8?
I don't know about ubuntu but for Win 8, it really runs more than well.. Also good on Win 7 too. Kudos to AMD.
The software is no longer available on AMD's website or any other download links that used to be valid (such as megaupload). If I do recall, the support logs mentioned that it had a beta support of Trinity, aka not fully tested/stable.
The software is no longer available on AMD's website or any other download links that used to be valid (such as megaupload). If I do recall, the support logs mentioned that it had a beta support of Trinity, aka not fully tested/stable.
I don't know about undervolting but the roadmap does say that there's going to 17-25W processors. Considering trinity had quad-core processors in that range, richland probably will have it too. Undervolting might work, but waiting for a new processor is probably smarter.
Well, what if I want to undervolt the new APUs?...
If both sides improve their IGP as much as rumors say they did, we could very well see the beginning of GPU-less lower-midrange gaming at up to 1080p.
Also, since this price drop includes some of the FX chips, the title is misleading.
But on the flip side, with PS4 and Xbox 720 coming out in 2013 Q3 or 2014 Q1, there is most likely going to be a surge in demand for computing power in ported games.
If the new consoles are much more powerful than their predecessor, then the games running on the new consoles are going to be much more demanding.
In short: Richland/Kaveri and GT3 are not going to be sufficient for very long.
Faster clocks + lower watts + fast RAMs = mmm mmm good
AMD for Life, Intel for the Wife
You should be able to unless they changed things, AMD always provides higher volts than each sample would need to work properly except temp limits decline the lower volts you use. Example a 19w apu under volted might only need 15w to work at rated speeds but become unstable at 80c when gaming. The sad part is the gpu tweaking is so limited and one almost always have to track down the best ram kits which are rare.
You should be able to unless they changed things, AMD always provides higher volts than each sample would need to work properly except temp limits decline the lower volts you use. Example a 19w apu under volted might only need 15w to work at rated speeds but become unstable at 80c when gaming. The sad part is the gpu tweaking is so limited and one almost always have to track down the best ram kits which are rare.
That's kind of stupid tbh, especially in a laptop, where power is important.
But if I was to undervolt it, then it would reduce the operating temp.
There are a few Youtube videos of undervolting a mobile Trinity/Llano APU.
Intel, AMD, and Nvidia (probably more too) all do it for all of their processors AFAIK. It's done to ensure stability AFAIK, but the companies usually put on more than maybe 99% of their chips need. Knowing that all units of a given model will do the job that's expected of them is usually considered more important than knowing that most units of a given model are wasting a little energy to allow for less expensive binning.
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/#s=23&xcx=0&sort=a2&f=8
I know it's not a lot, but I count at least three in pcpartpicker's database. Do you think that that isn't enough?