Where have I been you're asking? Well, I've been planning and building my Orynx, my new AMD APU build, for under 500 dollars.
CPU/GPU: AMD A10-5800K Whats that? Well APU stands for Accelerated Processing Unit. An APU acts as a CPU and a GPU but in one chip. Why melt a GPU onto a CPU you may be asking? Alright I need to stop asking rhetorical questions, but the Pros of an APU are that it is great for budget builds, due to it not needing a separate cooler and VRAM. It is also great for portability this is excellent for laptops, as there is no need for a separate graphics card. Why haven't we all switched to APUs? With all pros there must come cons, even if they're little. APUs must use the system ram, and dedicate that to the GPU. This pretty much means that if you are planning on doing any hardcore gaming, you're going to want atleast 8Gbs of high speed ram. Another con is that the GPU may not be that great, this may be the case for the chip I used (A10-5800k) as it was an older generation chip, but the newer A10-7850k and A10-7870k use R7 graphics, which perform outstandingly. The reason I didn't choose the newer A10s was my personal budget wouldn't allow it, so keep checking in to this blog and maybe AMD would have hooked me up with one to do another build. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H. This is the go to board for FM2+ budget-mid range builds. The board has been reviewed many times so I won't waste your time, and just link TimmyTechTv's video. The main reason to choose this motherboard though is the crossfire support, so that you can later crossfire a graphics card with the onboard graphics. Ram: AMD R9 Gamer Series 2400mhz 8Gb Kit. I couldn't let myself create an AMD APU build, and not use AMD ram. It was priced great, (at only $74 CAD), and made me feel great. It was easily over clocked, and how can you letdown lifetime warranty? HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM. Simple, fast, reliable and large storage. An SSD could be a future option, especially an AMD SSD to go with the AMD theme. Case: The Corsair 200r. The legendary budget mid tower case, with great airflow, and a user-freindly interface. I was debating for a while whether to go with this case, or the Deepcool Tesseract SW, but you can choose either one. Simple yet effeciant or loud and powerful with LED lights. Overall the 200r was a great case to build in, but I kind of wish I would have been able to give the Deepcool case a run for its money. Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze. A great power supply for the price, I could have easily gone with a CX500 and not been worried but the price on the EVGA PSU was a bit less. Conclusion: Now onto the conclusion, one of the hardest parts of any build. Overall the AMD APU was incredible, I could run any game at 720p-1080p medium/max settings. Skyrim, GTA V, CS:GO. Every game I threw at it, the APU was able to run. The only thing I would do next time is instead of going with the A10 5800k, I would definitely choose an A10-7850k or even better a 7870k. PC Parts: PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/nfs4Vn Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/nfs4Vn/by_merchant/ CPU: AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($84.88 @ Canada Computers) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($79.99 @ NCIX) Memory: AMD R9 Gamer Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory ($74.99 @ NCIX) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($60.98 @ Newegg Canada) Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Canada Computers) Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($64.98 @ DirectCanada) Total: $410.81 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-13 16:07 EDT-0400
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Harry Sted
7/29/2015 03:48:39 pm
Great Build! Although u could have used the higher APU (richwell series) and acheived better results
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