AMD A8-3870K Black Edition & Hybrid Crossfire Review
3D Mark
Published: 25th May 2012 | Source: AMD | Price: £90 |
3D Mark Vantage
A gaming behemoth it certainly isn't, although integrated GPUs have never been benchmark kings. It does throw up a pretty eye-opening result when we compare it to the current Intel option, the HD4000. The HD6550D is a much better performer, especially with the overclock. All previous results were tested with a GTX570 GPU on each of the seperate CPU results.
3D Mark 11
The results are, if anything, even more impressive in 3D Mark 11. It's a mile ahead of the Intel offering and should provide a reasonable level of gaming performance in non-demanding titles.
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Have been running one of these in my daughter's rig for a few months now. Its does everything asked of it with consumate ease. Mild gaming and internet browsing - it doesn't even break a sweat. The only thing that I noticed is that HWMonitor doesn't report the temps correctly.Quote
I personally have one of these and i think they are excellent!
Got my iGPU at 800Mhz from the stock 600MHz and most games play in 1080p with medium detail.
Also overclocked my HyperX Blu 1600Mhz to 1866Mhz so i get even better performance.
I would recommend this for anyone who likes some light gaming,Quote
Got my iGPU at 800Mhz from the stock 600MHz and most games play in 1080p with medium detail.
Also overclocked my HyperX Blu 1600Mhz to 1866Mhz so i get even better performance.
I would recommend this for anyone who likes some light gaming,Quote
surpised they let tom test one of these after his rightfully scathing attack on faildozer.
i was an amd fan, until that chip came out, now i'm leaning towards an intel build for the first time in over a decadeQuote
i was an amd fan, until that chip came out, now i'm leaning towards an intel build for the first time in over a decadeQuote
I think this CPU/APU is underrated. Ok it can`t keep up with an i5 or i7 but it has a lot of power and packs a decent gpu in there too. I used this one in a PC for a costumer, he can play nearly all games (even though in low settings) and it`s more than enough for internet, watching movies etc. I was really suprised by it when i tested it. And it`s cheap too, over here in Germany you get the A8-3870K for around 100â¬, really nice price (cheapest i6 is around 150â¬). I`m using alot AMD CPUs cause my avarage costumer does not have too much money and with the FMI chips i get a Cpu and a Gpu for little money. For Multimedia-PCs this is a good choice.Quote
its about time amd got back into the budget market, and it sounds like they've come back to the budget market, and slaughtered all competition at this kind of price point ...
they just need to get the high end sorted out and give intel some serious competition again.Quote
they just need to get the high end sorted out and give intel some serious competition again.Quote
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