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I haven't even look at AMD APUs seriously (well, OK, except for those 10 LLano dual-core CPU / mobos I picked up really cheap on ebay thanks to waltchan).
I picked up three A55-chipset FM2+ MSI micro-ATX boards from TD one time on a sale for $28 ea., which I thought was a spectacular deal. I then filled the CPU sockets with three, I think A4-6300 APUs, which were the cheapest APUs that I could find.
To be quite honest, I'm no fan of Bulldozer and derivatives, and I found that the A4-6300 APUs, even at 3.7/3.9, lacked "snap". (In fact, I think I prefer the 3.15Ghz slightly-OCed LLano dual-core APUs.)
I was just perusing Newegg's Labor Day sale, and they have a fancy A88X micro-ATX board for around $60.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...sp=LaborDaySale-_-0902-0905-_-13-157-689-_-NA
It's got two PCI-E x16 (physical) slots, M.2, and 8 SATA6G ports.
Are there any current worthwhile modern FM2+ APUs to use in one of these boards?
Have APUs gotten any better than the Trinity / Richland FM2 days?
How's the media decoding support? 4K? HEVC? VP9?
Edit: Granted, it's probably not a great time to invest in FM2+, with AM4 around the corner... but OTOH, FM2+ stuff should be fire-saled pretty soon (if it hasn't already started, like with this board), and AM4 is bound to have some "teething pains".
If Bristol Ridge was out in the whitebox channel, I'd probably go with that, for more modern media-decoding support.
Btw, are any of the rumors true, that there is going to be BOTH FM2+ and AM4 varieties of BR?
I picked up three A55-chipset FM2+ MSI micro-ATX boards from TD one time on a sale for $28 ea., which I thought was a spectacular deal. I then filled the CPU sockets with three, I think A4-6300 APUs, which were the cheapest APUs that I could find.
To be quite honest, I'm no fan of Bulldozer and derivatives, and I found that the A4-6300 APUs, even at 3.7/3.9, lacked "snap". (In fact, I think I prefer the 3.15Ghz slightly-OCed LLano dual-core APUs.)
I was just perusing Newegg's Labor Day sale, and they have a fancy A88X micro-ATX board for around $60.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...sp=LaborDaySale-_-0902-0905-_-13-157-689-_-NA
It's got two PCI-E x16 (physical) slots, M.2, and 8 SATA6G ports.
Are there any current worthwhile modern FM2+ APUs to use in one of these boards?
Have APUs gotten any better than the Trinity / Richland FM2 days?
How's the media decoding support? 4K? HEVC? VP9?
Edit: Granted, it's probably not a great time to invest in FM2+, with AM4 around the corner... but OTOH, FM2+ stuff should be fire-saled pretty soon (if it hasn't already started, like with this board), and AM4 is bound to have some "teething pains".
If Bristol Ridge was out in the whitebox channel, I'd probably go with that, for more modern media-decoding support.
Btw, are any of the rumors true, that there is going to be BOTH FM2+ and AM4 varieties of BR?
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