New Rig For Less Than $230 - Possible?

[lucas122478]

Copy/pasted wrong mobo from lol - it was this one. ASROCK N68-S3 UCC

 

[tincart]

It is going to push it better than the atom.

From AT's own results:

"With a couple of exceptions (World of Warcraft, HAWX), there's no real benefit to a discrete Radeon HD 5450 over the integrated Radeon HD 6310. This is unsurprising as the two have very similar compute capabilities and only differ in the amount of available memory bandwidth since the Radeon HD 5450 doesn't have to share with a neighboring CPU."

Take a look at the scaling:

Aside from one title, there's little to no improvement by moving from the 5450 to the 5570 so even faster discrete GPU's will probably perform similarly. Discrete GPU's above a 5570 will be severely CPU bound and will give you little improvement over the 6310 you already have.

 

[Arkadrel]

From AT's own results:

"With a couple of exceptions (World of Warcraft, HAWX), there's no real benefit to a discrete Radeon HD 5450 over the integrated Radeon HD 6310. This is unsurprising as the two have very similar compute capabilities and only differ in the amount of available memory bandwidth since the Radeon HD 5450 doesn't have to share with a neighboring CPU."

Take a look at the scaling:

20-40 fps lmao with low settings ^^
I think its CPU bottlenecked lmao... show little performance gain even with bigger cards in it.
That a 18w APU can even play WoW/HAWK/CoD-blackOps at decent fps (low settings) is impressive.



Llano will have ~5 times as much streaming processors as the E-350 GPU has. And MUCH more powerfull CPU cores running much higher speeds.

It ll also have dual channel DDR3 of atleast 1866 speeds (29.5 GB/S memory bandwidth).
vs the E-350's Singel channel 1033 speeds.

Once that happends, I bet we ll see people have small gameing systems with the Llanos

 

[blckgrffn]

Copy/pasted wrong mobo from lol - it was this one. ASROCK N68-S3 UCC

You should be set then I know how frustrating buying tech stuff in your part of the world can be... We have a sister office there and many times we'll bring *gifts* for our Manila counterparts when we travel there

As weak as the GT430 is, on a 17" LCD you should be able to game without throwing the PC across the room in frustration

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3973/nvidias-geforce-gt-430/14

Obviously, if you could swing for a GTS 450 or a 5670 you'd be much happier in the long run...