MC AMD processor + Free Mobo

[Vincent]

Those power consumption levels seem high to me. Based on the readings from my UPS, I have a Phenom II X3 710-based system using about 70W at idle and an Athlon II X2 250-based system consuming 60W at idle.

Maybe my UPS measurements are less accurate than whatever device they're using, but their power consumption levels are on the order of twice mine.

 

[VirtualLarry]

One thing they dont list on there is you can get the Athlon II x2 250 for $58 and it qualifies for this deal. I got it with the free Biostar mobo and it's great for a HTPC (as long as you don't need bluray- 760g wont do that)

What are the limitations of the 760G? I've built several rigs with 760G, but haven't sold them yet. Don't want to advertise falsely. It doesn't do H264 decoding? What about Flash 10.1 acceleration? What about MPEG-2? Can it accelerate any video functions, or do they disable the entire block (presumably because these are defective 780G/785G chips)?

 

[13Gigatons]

Those power consumption levels seem high to me. Based on the readings from my UPS, I have a Phenom II X3 710-based system using about 70W at idle and an Athlon II X2 250-based system consuming 60W at idle.

Maybe my UPS measurements are less accurate than whatever device they're using, but their power consumption levels are on the order of twice mine.

5870 graphics card was included. Here it is with a 5450. I should have mentioned that above. :sneaky:

We didn’t feel that our test set-up really represented actual usage, so to see how low we could see power consumption we exchanged the 5870 graphics card for a 5450, which uses around 20w under load, and removed a couple of sticks of the ram to leave 4Gb. We then re-ran the same test without any overclocking or tweaking.

Closer to your measurements.

http://www.techeye.net/reviews/we-take-a-dekko-at-amds-latest-e-series-processors

 

[ahenkel]

I would spend so much freaking money at MC if they shipped these kind of deals.

 

[yottabit]

What are the limitations of the 760G? I've built several rigs with 760G, but haven't sold them yet. Don't want to advertise falsely. It doesn't do H264 decoding? What about Flash 10.1 acceleration? What about MPEG-2? Can it accelerate any video functions, or do they disable the entire block (presumably because these are defective 780G/785G chips)?

You know this is something I've been trying to find out myself for a long time, and it doesn't seem to be very well documented. The 760g uses an HD3000 series integrated GPU according to the AMD specsheet:
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/chipsets/7-series-integrated/Pages/amd-760g-chipset.aspx

When I bought it I was under the impression it didn't support flash acceleration like the 780g did. However my Athlon II x2 250 with the 760g can play 1080p flash videos with under 40% cpu utilization, so I imagine it must. From what I've read the discrete HD3000 series GPU's don't support flash acceleration (only the discrete HD4000+ do) however the integrated HD3000 series do. By this logic I would assume it does in fact also support blu-ray/h.264 decoding, although it's not an advertised feature.

Interesting, on AMD's listing it says "Enjoy enough bandwidth to watch movies with ultra-high resolution, 1080p video playback" seems they are careful to say it's not necessarily accelerated though.

EDIT: So did some more experimentation. Loading up GPU-Z shows no OpenCL or DirectComputer support on the 760g. Also, I tried playing back a 25 Mbps 1080p clip from my HD camcorder and amazingly the comp handled it but at 90% CPU utilization on both cores. Plus 1080p Youtube uses 40-50% on both cores, this leads me to believe there is no hardware acceleration of any sort. Luckily the 3 Ghz Regor I'm using is fast enough for what it needs to do.

For comparison on my i5 750/ Radeon 5770 rig playing back the same 1080p clip is 8% CPU utilization with 64% GPU load. Youtube 1080p is about 8% with 30% GPU load. I believe you need the 780g chipset for Blu-ray and HD flash acceleration Maybe I'm wrong, and it is GPU accelerated but the GPU just can't handle that much? I'd love for someone to shed light on the situation. I really though all HD3000 integrated were flash accelerated: http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-accelerates-flash-player-2009nov17.aspx

EDIT EDIT:
Alright, so definitely no full flash/blu ray support. That came with the 785g actually. You need UVD2 for flash, and the 760g has UVD+. This should be adequate with a decent CPU to play back any reasonable 1080p video. Not sure how it would fair with the low clocked e series CPUs though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series
http://www.overclock.net/amd-general/869030-athlon-ii-x3-760g-athlon-ii.html

 

[Vincent]

5870 graphics card was included. Here it is with a 5450. I should have mentioned that above. :sneaky:


Closer to your measurements.

http://www.techeye.net/reviews/we-take-a-dekko-at-amds-latest-e-series-processors

Ok that makes sense. I'm just using integrated 785G graphics in my systems. Thanks for the link.

 

[jlee]

I would spend so much freaking money at MC if they shipped these kind of deals.

No kidding..I'd have more spare systems than I could use..

 

[HybridSquirrel]

I would spend so much freaking money at MC if they shipped these kind of deals.

i will ship to you?

 

[dawp]

these are still active, Friday I picked up the last 2 1090t at my MC and 2 asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 along with a i7 950 for $199 and an asus x58 sabertooth.

 

[jlee]

Still alive and not all OOS yet..just ordered a 560 BE and an Asus M4A78LT-M LE for pickup at their Cambridge store.

 

[Artista]

I was all excited then realized its in store pick up only.

The 4000 mile drive isn't quite worth it!