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AMD APUs Get a Significant Price Cut
The only thing better than technology is technology at a reduced price. In what is likely a move to combat Intels G3258 budget CPU, AMD has cut the MSRP on a lot of APUs and you can save up to 30 percent on some models. The current flagship Kaveri A10-7850K…
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AMD APU: How Much Progress Has Been Made?
Introduction Cast your mind back to mid-2011 when AMD released its first “APU”. Back then “APU” (Accelerated Processing Unit) was a term not many of us were familiar with, although the concept wasn’t alien as we’ve had it for quite some time: a CPU that also provides a GPU. Up until the…
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Three New A58 Series FM2+ Motherboards Launched By MSI
MSI launched its three additions to the AMD A58 series FM2+ motherboards, the MSI A58-G41 PC Mate, MSI A58M-E35 and MSI A58M-E33, with support for the new AMD Kaveri APU having also compatibility with AM2 socket processors such as the Richland and Trinity APUs. The motherboards are said to be…
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AMD Kaveri Review: A10-7850K, A10-7700K and A8-7600
Introduction If you follow our website and the technology industry more broadly then you may have heard a lot about Kaveri since it was officially launched on January 14th 2014. Kaveri is the codename for AMD’s fourth generation of desktop APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) after Llano, Trinity and Richland. In…
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ASUS A88X-PRO (FM2+) Motherboard Review
Introduction With AMD’s fourth generation of AMD APUs, Kaveri, just around the corner it couldn’t be a better time to look at a brand spanking new FM2+ motherboard from ASUS. Today we have the ASUS A88X PRO motherboard on the test bench and this high-end motherboard will make the perfect…
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Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X (FM2+) Motherboard Review
Introduction AMD are rumoured to be exiting the high end desktop market with the FX series of processors on the AM3+ socket expected to be AMD’s last range of standalone CPU products. Of course the main reason for that decision by AMD, if it does turn out to be true,…
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AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K Kaveri A-Series APU Specs Revealed
A little over a month now until AMD would release the Kaveri A10 series, and specs for them have been revealed. The A10-7850K has four Steamroller cores and 512 GCN stream processors, with a max compute of 856 GFLops compared to 779 GFlops on the Richland A10-6800K APU. The clock…
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AMD A10-6700T 45W Energy Efficient Richland APU Now Available
AMD’s “low power” A10-6700T APU will go on sale this week and it will be targeting the energy efficient market segment. The T moniker after the A10-6700 title denotes the reduced power limits of just 45W. Even with a 45W TDP the unit still has 2.5GHz across four cores based…
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Asus To Launch FM2+ A88X & A55 Motherboards
Asus has introduced two new motherboards to their range and while they’re nothing fancy they are the first range of motherboards from Asus with the FM2+ socket, which is set to be compatible with the upcoming release of AMD Kaveri hardware. The new A88XM-A and the A55BM-A/USB3 motherboards are both FM2+…
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AMD A10-6800K “Richland” Sets New World Record @ 8.2GHz
A Finnish overclockers who goes by the name of “The Stilt” has bagged him self a new world record for highest CPU overclock, no easy task given the clock speeds involved and that the benchmark for this becomes harder with every attempt. Using the AMD A10-6800K and a huge amount…
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AMD Could Delay Kaveri APUs to Q1 2014
According to a report by Digitimes AMD may delay the next series of APUs, codename Kaveri, until 2014 instead of releasing them in Q4 of this year. Apparently manufacturing is starting later than expected and so the Kaveri APUs will need some extra time to be developed. AMD’s Kaveri APUs…
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Gigabyte Introduce F2A75M-DS2 Budget FM2 Motherboard
Looking for a budget motherboard for a cheap AMD FM2 based system? Then Gigabyte have released just the motherboard for you. Gigabyte’s new F2A75M-DS2 motherboard supports socket FM2 AMD CPUs and APUs including the latest Richland platform. This motherboard isn’t exactly aimed at the overclocker as it features a relatively…
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AMD Preparing Energy Efficient Socket FM2 APUs
AMD’s current series of FM2 Richland APUs have been well received for the excellent bang for buck they offer yet one thing that does let them down (and also lets down most AMD CPUs) is the rather large TDPs they have of 65-100W depending on the models. That said AMD…
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AMD A10-6800k & A10-6700 ‘Richland’ APU Review
It’s been a busy time of year in the CPU market, with Haswell now on sale and making its stand as one mighty processor for its size, it’s time for AMD to release their update to the Trinity APU platform. Whilst Intel’s new Z87 platform has seen a vast improvement…
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AMD Super Pi Performance Fixed With Patch, Benchmark Record To Be Smashed
AMD has always been very poor at Super Pi test scores since the Bulldozer architecture was released. You only need to take a quick glimpse at the graph below to see that both Bulldozer and Piledriver based AMD CPUs flat-out suck, there is no other way to put it. The…
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