I highly doubt it...

Unless AMD could return to their price/performance prowess with their Zen CPUs in 2016, going with AM3+/APU would be a waste...

Heck, APUs are not exactly favorable in terms of price/performance since their CPU performance are not exactly powerful, and if you add a discrete card to the mix, you'll be wasting the performance of the integrated graphics.

The 7400K only has a CPU performance of a low voltage i3, and when it comes to upgrades, the max you could go without switching platforms would be a 7850K, which is only comparable to an i5-760.

The price of APUs are not exactly cheap either. For example, the price of A10-7850K costs about RM700, which is dangerously priced to a Xeon E3.
You'll be paying a lot for integrated graphics, which most gamers won't be using.

Though I'd like to see how AMD competes in the GPU segment.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jan 19 2015, 07:25 AM

Bear in mind that not all games work with hybrid Crossfire...

It can be very buggy to work with.

If I'm not mistaken, someone here actually bought an APU build and complains it's not performing up to his task.... I think he spent about RM2.5K for one.

Well, pretty nice thread number though.

Anyway, it seems like we won't be able to see AMD's next desktop CPU this year....

So, are you bringing in the A8 7600? It has been taking quite a while right now...

How much? I found one on PChome - and it costs around RM400 including shipping...

Idle or on load?

RM500 looks expensive - but I know I can get it much cheaper:

http://global.pchome.com.tw/prod/DRAI08-A9005FWCS

RM400 including global shipping, and you can pay it with your credit card.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Mar 17 2015, 03:09 PM

Well you need to factor other things such as integrated GPU...

IMHO the best upgrade for you is an Intel build - A Xeon E3 with a H97 chipset will be a much more sizable upgrade over most AMD setups.

Hopefully they can bring back the old days of Phenom II - a competitive CPU for a non-wallet breaking price tag.

Same here - used to have a PII X4 back then before upgrading to a 3570K...

Looks like a very overengineered card, from its looks...

Also, someone has modded a Fury Strix and overclocked the heck out of it under LN2...

http://wccftech.com/asus-radeon-r9-fury-ov...-bandwidth-ln2/

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Aug 14 2015, 06:09 PM

Perhaps Computex Taipei may have some hidden surprises...

Mind leaking some details, especially about the NDA is brought forward to 24th?

Not too shabby for a first time

This should mean AMD can claw back some market share, and that means more competition. More competition = happy consumers

This should hopefully mean that software devs can stop slacking off and begin optimizing their software for multithreading

As a guy that works with video transcoding, virtual machines and games... this thing is perfect

Interestingly someone on reddit mentioned this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/...egation_thread/

Golem.de apparently received a BIOS update from MSI which supposedly comes with improved gaming performance....

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Mar 8 2017, 12:05 AM

Not really a complete rebrand, more or less it's a refresh - think about the GTX770 is a refresh of the old 680.

A refresh usually comes with added advantage such as lower power consumption, better performance and overclockability (due to slightly higher quality yields). They are often cheaper than their predecessors too.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Mar 26 2017, 06:50 PM

ASUS and AMD GPUs are a terrible match

Can't complain about the price though