I'm about two years out of date

[Sleepingforest]

Yeah, I completely forgot that they probably gave it a really powerful discrete card so they could measure only the CPU's impact on framerate. Doh!

 

[Ruptga]

I dont see the conditions, but since that is a test of many cpus, a lot without an igp, the results must be with a powerful discrete card. This is not gaming on the igp.

I have no doubt an A10 with a discrete card would play WoW, but as the other poster said, that particular game strongly favors intel, so the A10 would not be my choice with a discrete card.

I don't doubt you are right, but according to this, as long as we get good memory an A10 won't need discrete graphics at all (for wow).

 

[Homeles]

I don't doubt you are right, but according to this, as long as we get good memory an A10 won't need discrete graphics at all (for wow).

It certainly makes a difference, but I see it as polishing a turd. Not that Trinity is bad, but it's just not the same as a discrete CPU and GPU. I don't feel like AMD's APUs are quite there yet -- most of what's supposedly going to make APUs special won't be landing until late this year at the earliest, and likely midway through next year for anything on the desktop.

 

[myocardia]

I don't doubt you are right, but according to this, as long as we get good memory an A10 won't need discrete graphics at all (for wow).

That test was with Cataclysm. In the newest expansion, you'll get about exactly half of those framerates. My system is many times more powerful than that, and my framerates roughly halved once the newest expansion dropped. I'd hate to have to play at half of 41 fps. Also, you do realize that all of these are done with absolutely nothing happening on-screen, don't you? That A10 would have been struggling to hit 20 fps, had that been in a boss fight, and not just out walking (or flying) around, where it only got 41 fps.

Here is the actual video of the flight that they used for their benchmarks, with comments by the author of that article you linked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiWqiQoUe8A Like I said the first time, WoW is NOT a friend to AMD, for whatever reason.

 

[Denithor]

Yeah, most people simply don't understand just how demanding WoW can be, especially during heavy raids. You want a solid Intel quad (Sandy Bridge or newer), lots of faster RAM (8GB DDR3-1600 at absolute minimum, faster is actually better for once) and a decent GPU (suggest 7790/GTX 650Ti or better 7850).

 

[Ruptga]

My wife has been done a ton of Cataclysm and Pandatown raids and on a 1.6ghz i7 and an HD5650M. I don't know what her settings are, but it can be done. After some reading on the bnet forums, I'm pretty sure a solo overclocked A10-5800K will do fine for her.

If it were me, I'd at least get an i3 and 7770. But it's not me, and the most difficult thing this computer will probably ever run will be whatever expansion comes after Pandatown in a couple of years.