AMD To Cut Prices of Some FM1 APUs
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AMD is expected to drop prices of some of its older processors.
According to a report published by Digitimes, AMD will reduce the tray price of the A4-3300 from $46 to 30, as well as the A4-3400 from $48 to $35.
The more recent FM2-based A4-5300 will reportedly drop from $53 to $30 in Q1 2013 to compete against Intel's Pentium chips. Price appears to be AMD's main leverage to defend itself against Intel in what is a toughening CPU market.
Following Intel's sobering earnings result announced yesterday, AMD will be releasing its numbers on Thursday. According to rumors, AMD will once again be cutting costs.
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why would a home theater system need the processing power of an i7? its extremely unnecessary. If you use the i7 for a different purpose like work, then it isn't considered a HTPC anymore.
I wouldn't mind upgrading my old PC, if I only have to top up just $50-75 for the entire platform change(CPU+mobo+RAM) + speed boost.
A3300 is a dual 2.5Ghz, so upgrading from core 2 duo isnt really make any sense. May be a A6 in these kind of price?
why would a home theater system need the processing power of an i7? its extremely unnecessary. If you use the i7 for a different purpose like work, then it isn't considered a HTPC anymore.
Riiight, I;m sure your i7 paired with a Nvidia $70 GT$$$$ draws less at the plug than a AMD APU.
they are focusing on laptops. i'm pretty sure the first A10 cpu came out for mobiles. i could be wrong because i don't really focus on AMD CPUs anymore. i do know that the integrated GPUs are awesome and they are the best CPU to get for budget gaming desktops, HTPCs and laptops.
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Anyone know how well these work with Linux? Mainly, are the GPU-drivers good?
Linux drivers are terrible for these. Build a cheap desktop from an A6 back in April for a linux development machine, zero opencl/gl support. Ended up slapping windows on it and giving it to my parents to replace their core2duo.
Thanks for replying ( and quickly at that ).
But damn, these would have been great for a small linux-box. While RAM is cheap atm I wouldn't want to buy more than 1 GB for a HTPC, and most distros run great on 1GB.
So, they get penalized in the reviews, because their 'quad-core' chips lose to Intel 'dual-core' chips in many disciplines. But, in terms of sales, their dual core is small, because it's not one, whereas Intel dual cores are real dual cores.
They do waste quite a bit of real estate on their APUs with the GPU part, but as more apps get optimized to use those resources, maybe it will pay off. Maybe not though. If it doesn't, it makes no sense since anyone needing real video capability needs a discrete cards, and if you're using it for the basics, you need less than these APUs have, and it just adds to cost. It's in a bad area right now, too weak or too expensive, but rarely just right. Unless more apps use it for other purposes.
Makes sense, otherwise no one would buy an obsolete platform without upgrade path.
I'm waiting to see all the FM2 and it's (CPU side) capabilities before I even look at AMD again.
power consumption, IPC, overclocking headroom...