AMD A10-6800K Richland 4.4GHZ APU Socket FM2 Quad Core 4MB 100W Black Edition Retail Box

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This APU delivers very decent gaming performance for an onboard solution. It performs smoothly at 1280x720 in everything I've played, including Grid 2, Sim City (which came with it), and Battlefield 3. I don't have benchmarks, but in BF3, the framerate was good enough to play online at Medium quality defaults.I bought this to be a living room gaming pc on my older 720p DLP projection tv. My goal was to run it in a slim mATX case, and be sufficient with the onboard graphics. It plays everything fine, but I am running older DDR3 at 1600. All of the review I've read demonstrate that it will perform much better with 2133 or higher. I'll wait until prices drop  again though.The other con for this APU is that it runs hot. Very hot. The supplied heatsink does not do a good job. This is why I won't be housing it in a slim case.After playing with this APU, and reading reviews, I think I would have gone for the A10-6700 instead, just because they have the same performance, and the 6700 draws a lot less power.

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I bought this APU for light gaming + HTPC use knowing that it uses 100W power and generates a fair amount of heat, but I could avoid installing a GPU card given the good performance of the APU.No compaints so far except I have to toss the stock cooler, the noise levels are so bad it should'nt be included.Other notes: The gigabyte mobo I have does not detect core temps correctly, health check thinks it is way higher than it really is, but another part of BIOS will detect core temps correctly. I'm at ver 1.0 of bios so I expect a future bios update  will resolve the issue. Also when set for turbo mode, the temps and cpu cooling noise levels will go up autmatically, so if you want to keep things as cool as possible, disable turbo mode. The APU can handle up to 2400Mhz DDR3, so to get the best performnce out of the GPU which uses shared RAM, put in the highest speed DDR3 that you can, but make sure your mobo can handle it.

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Overall, I'm pretty impressed with this processor. I purchased it with a F2A85-M motherboard. It can run a little on the hot side, but aside from that, it's great.

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Very impressed with this unit. Bought it for a budget gaming system along with the mATX ASUS F2A85-M PRO motherboard and 8GB of Kingston 2400 ram. Mostly just running WOW on it atm, but I am able to put settings on Ultra and it runs just fine. Had to do some tweaking in the BIOS to get the ram running at correct speed, and an aftermarket CPU cooler is a must for OC'ing.