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    Will Richland APU be compatable with Kavari APU?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by feelgeorge13, Nov 26, 2013.

  1. feelgeorge13

    feelgeorge13 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi Guys,

    I am thinking of buy an A10-5750m (Richland ) laptop, I know Kavari APU will be out next year and they seem to be impressive. Do you know if the A10-5750m socket will be compatible with a kavari APU for laptops?

    Will Richland laptops APU with compatible with the promising Kavari laptop APU. I am seriously thinking about buying an A10-5750m laptop and if it can be upgraded to Kavari that would be an added bonus to I need to know before I pull the trigger on a laptop with Richland processor inside.

    Thanks Guys please enlighten us on this.

    Much appreciated
     
    feelgeorge13, Nov 26, 2013
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  2. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    No Kaveri will be a different socket.
     
    octiceps, Nov 26, 2013
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Not a chance i'm afraid.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Nov 26, 2013
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    feelgeorge13 Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks Guys, now my buying decision just got tricky. Hoping to get an AMD with A10-5750m with a AMD 8970M GPU.
     
    feelgeorge13, Nov 27, 2013
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    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    thats a very bad idea
     
    Karamazovmm, Nov 27, 2013
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    why do you say that? what makes the combination so bad? I want to know so i can make the right choice
     
    feelgeorge13, Nov 27, 2013
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    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    not enough power on the cpu side.

    people will tell you that in higher resolutions a lot of the load moves off to the gpu, and that isn't true.

    The gpu will receive more of the load, but the cpu still pays a good impact on that.

    aside that there is a larger variation on the fps, avg fps is a very poor choice of showing performance, min fps is a good way to measure it. simply put, that amd cpu can't output good enough min fps as intel cpus can

    best is to pay a little bit more and just get the i7+8970m combo
     
    Karamazovmm, Nov 27, 2013
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    In layman's terms, the A10 APU will severely bottleneck the 8970M GPU and reduce performance in games by as much as 50% compared to an i7.
     
    octiceps, Nov 27, 2013
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