AMD “Richland” A-Series A10-6800K
Posted
June 8, 2013
by Kenny in CPU & Motherboards
Overview
Hardware: CPU & MotherboardsWHAT WE LIKED:
Great overclocking ability, native 2133MHz memory support, Continued FM2 based socketWHAT WE DISLIKED:
NoneBOTTOM LINE:
For little money, the APU A10-6800K can build a great budget gaming PC or workstation with money to spare. Its performance to value ratio is superb.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is the first Richland review that was spot on. No comparing it against an i7 Haswell. No skimping over game tests with both the onboard and a descrete GPU. And this is the only review where you tested the hybrid Crossfire. Again, thank you.
Thank you for reading our review, we definitely appreciate the feedback.
while the CPU overclock is interesting, would leaving CPU stock and boosting GPU to 900MHz have produced better result in some areas? Also how would 2400 memory change things for stock APU and would even tighter timings on 2133 memory show any difference with the latency boost they would offer if viable?
Hi paddy,
while you do have a interesting point regarding the overclock of the CPU Vs. the GPU, we didn’t test with any overclocks of the GPU core. While doing this will increase performance only to the application that demands higher graphics support over its CPU cores, our goal was to test over all CPU performance. AMD is still fine tuning its drivers for the graphics side of things and we are hoping with newer drivers set, this will show improvements as they mature this platform.
As for the memory, depending on your motherboard its possible to get 2400MHz on the memory, but this chipset alone is noted to handle 2133MHz without a hitch and did it with very little work here. Depending on the memory you use, and the lower CAS along with tighter timings can improve performance, this can be real subjective to each persons set-up.
However, RAW CPU performance will boost overall system improvement better then memory. Infact, since the memory controller is on the CPU die itself, its better to increase the CPU performance and boost the overall system as a whole.
Thanks for taking the time to read our review and looking forward to additional insite.
Kenny