[LiveBrianD]

What do you guys think of this: http://www.maximumpc...ew_trinity_apus

If those APUs are fairly powerful and the price is good, I think they just might be able to make a comeback. After all, their current APUs are pretty good, but then again, Bulldozer sucked big time. Still, a 3.8GHz chip with a ati 7660D? I hope they've learned their lesson from bulldozer, and this'll be competitively priced like the previous apus. By the way, can you, say, crossfire an APU with a, say, 6550D inside, with a 6770 (or a different model of the same series)?

[coastie65]

Hmmm, have to wait and see. That is a bit more than what saw a little while back on there new stuff. At that time, wasn't enough info to even comment on it.

[LiveBrianD]

Hmm... apparently the highest GPU you can crossfire with an APU is a 6670 right now... still, that shouldn't be too bad. I hope AMD can get competitive again. As it is, Intel is the only viable player in the high-end (and even mid-range) CPU market.

[waldojim]

LiveBrianD, on 13 February 2012 - 07:53 PM, said:

Hmm... apparently the highest GPU you can crossfire with an APU is a 6670 right now... still, that shouldn't be too bad. I hope AMD can get competitive again. As it is, Intel is the only viable player in the high-end (and even mid-range) CPU market.

You may want to rethink that position. Even the cheapest AMD Athlon II (currently the X3 455), is far outpaced by the cheapest Intel Pentium dual core (currently tied between the G620 and G630).

Sorry, but the tables have turned - value, as it stands, it 100% in Intels favor.

[LiveBrianD]

What about the APUs?

[waldojim]

LiveBrianD, on 14 February 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

What about the APUs?

They have proven themselves to be slower than the CPU counterparts. Haven't you followed the reviews? They are basically Athlon X2 - X4 chips with a built in video card. Lacking the cache and clock speeds to keep up with higher end parts. In the end, any performance differences in the video aspect work out to be a wash.