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Is this processor has much value for it's price ?

CorkCorkCorkCorkCorkCork Member Posts: 70
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I am looking at this processor and I really think this is a worth while buy for a DIY computer. What do you think ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103943

 

P.S: Excuse my poor english, I written the topic down in a hurry.

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  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    Depends on
    a) What deal you can get on a motherboard to stick it in
    b) What your expectations are: it will perform pretty well, but a similarly priced Phenom II will out-perform it in CPU tasks (however won't have on-die graphics). For any application where your wanting to use a discrete video card, go with a Phenom and discrete video. For mid-low level CPU and video tasks it would be a nice little package.

  • CorkCorkCorkCorkCorkCork Member Posts: 70

    Originally posted by Ridelynn

    Depends on

    a) What deal you can get on a motherboard to stick it in

    b) What your expectations are: it will perform pretty well, but a similarly priced Phenom II will out-perform it in CPU tasks (however won't have on-die graphics). For any application where your wanting to use a discrete video card, go with a Phenom and discrete video. For mid-low level CPU and video tasks it would be a nice little package.

    The selling point of this processor is it's integration with a discrete GPU. It's killing two birds with one stone.

    I don't really want to have a CPU with a seperate GPU card. It's just a waste of money in my personal circumstance.

    I have a strong hunch not to buy a i5 intel processor because I am not sure of it's integrated GPU capabilities.

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  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    Originally posted by CorkCorkCork

    Originally posted by Ridelynn
    Depends on
    a) What deal you can get on a motherboard to stick it in
    b) What your expectations are: it will perform pretty well, but a similarly priced Phenom II will out-perform it in CPU tasks (however won't have on-die graphics). For any application where your wanting to use a discrete video card, go with a Phenom and discrete video. For mid-low level CPU and video tasks it would be a nice little package.
    The selling point of this processor is it's integration with a discrete GPU. It's killing two birds with one stone.
    I don't really want to have a CPU with a seperate GPU card. It's just a waste of money in my personal circumstance.
    I have a strong hunch not to buy a i5 intel processor because I am not sure of it's integrated GPU capabilities.

    It is very much faster than the integrated video on the Intel CPU. As long as you were planning on using the on-die GPU, it's a decent deal (again, depending on if you can get a good deal on a Socket FM1 motherboard to stick it in, those used to be a bit rare, but looking around newegg it looks like there are a good number of them around now.

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    Interesting...I have never seen anything like this before. How weak/powerful is this compared to a stand alone cpu with dedicated gpu?

  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    Originally posted by Nunez1212
    Interesting...I have never seen anything like this before. How weak/powerful is this compared to a stand alone cpu with dedicated gpu?

    CPU-wise, Llano is basically an AthlonII core for core. PhenomII's/Bulldozers will outperform it a bit, but they don't have on-die graphics.

    The on-die graphics perform pretty similar nVidia 430 ($80) or AMD 5550 ($60). It's officially listed as "6550D". Comparable cards new are in the $70 range. It's a bit faster than the 6450 (listed for $50), but the 6670 ($90) is about twice as fast. It's more than double the speed of on-die Intel graphics.

    It used to be that an AM3 motherboard + low end AthlonII + lower end video card (in the same range as the on-die Llano graphics) was cheaper than a FM1 motherboard + Llano CPU. Prices are still competitive towards which way to go, but I think you can make the case to go either way now with motherboard prices what they are (down as low as the $70-80 range for both AM3 and FM1), and the availability of the really inexpensive AthlonII's isn't what it used to be.

    For most gaming purposes I tend to not recommend anything lower than a 6770/nVidia 550 (both in the $125 range). Below that the prices scale poorly and the performance drops off rapidly. You can game on slower GPU's for sure, and they are cheaper, but that little bit of extra money to jump up to this tier of video card buys you a whole lot of performance.

    http://pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-3850-Llano-Desktop-Processor-Review-Can-AMD-compete-Sandy-Bridge/Radeon-H

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