AMD A6 Series Processor 3.9 2 AD640KOKHLBOX

Handles any basic task perfectly (web browsing, non-interactive media, etc). I play games on it on medium settings and I'm totally happy with it, its definitely not going to be the best if your a hard core gamer, but I'm not concerned about getting optimal textures and framerates, and I'm totally happy with it. Plays Age of Empires HD and Portal perfectly, and Total War: Rome 2 and Elder Scrolls Online on medium settings reasonably smoothly, and if you put them on low settings, very smoothly (although those games look a lot better in medium. I actually set ESO to high and it works, although the framerate drops quite a bit). Overall I'd recommend this for anyone who needs an affordable CPU, and gamers who don't mind losing out on graphics quality.

Bought as part of an ITX mother board build as a 4GB HTPC running Windows 7. While it would be nice if it ran a bit cooler (the system case uses one quiet fan, rather than being fanless), I've had no problems with the part: It has run Windows 7 flawlessly, and we've had no problems streaming from Amazon Prime (we used to when we were using the "smartness" of our HDTV) or using it as a DVR under Windows Media Center. When using it as a plain PC, its performance has been surprisingly good for the "plain vanilla" things (that is, not gaming or high computational tasks) for which it is occasionally used. Bottom line is no problems and a good price/performance ratio.

So I've built a PC with this processor and it is decent, but after going through all the trouble of buying all the individual components and getting it put together, I can't help but think: wow, I spent $400, if I had spent $50 more I could have gotten a computer twice as fast--the A10 quad core with the integrated graphics. So consider that. But my system basically booted up first try, and the performance of it has got to be about 4x of my previous machine: with 8gb ram and SSD, it flies. I am running Linux Lite and it is a great alternative to windows, recognized all my hardware no problems, and the interface is very, very windows-like.

I'm not a mad gamer, not really a power user, but I have run this processor through a few different uses and I'm impressed. My Box--Ubuntu 12.04. A6-6400k stock fan/heat sink. Corsair CX430 PSU. 8 Gig Kingston 1600 Mhz DDR3. Western Digital Blue 1Tb HDD. Gigabyte GA-F2A85XM-D3H AMD MoBo. Very good graphics on board the A6, no need for a graphics card. I use this mostly as a DAW (digital audio workstation) and so far no issues running KXStudio/Ardour/LMMS. I've ripped some DVDs using Handbrake without any issues. Played some games on Steam--no issues. Runs XBMC and VLC no problems. Plays FTL no problem (not at all a game that loads the APU). Open Arena plays smoothly even on the highest settings. No serious lag issues. Having a few issues getting Gimp to not randomly crash, but I don't think the problem is processor related. One item worthy of note--I have 8 gigs of RAM installed, as seen by the BIOS on start up, though when the OS is running, it sees just over 7 gigs. The best explanation I have found is about a gig of RAM is used/set aside for the GPU. No problems as far as I can detect caused by this... Seems like a great deal for the price. Quite pleased.

AMD lags behind intel in single threaded performance, so if you're going to go AMD, its best to at least have a bunch of cores. I'd recommend either getting an older A8 or an intel i3 if you need something cheap. Running Windows 8 with just firefox open, I'm hitting 100% on both cores very frequently. This causes some lag and its kinda annoying. Its not the worst thing in the world, but I don't think the amount of money you'd save getting this processor is worth it. I still gave it 3 stars because its at least what it claims to be. However, don't be fooled by AMD calling their APU graphics HD 8000. The graphics are comparable to an integrated HD 6000 series GPU. This isn't terrible, but the naming is very misleading. Its okay for gaming on low-medium settings. If you want to upgrade to a nicer graphics card eventually, keep in mind that the slow processor will bottle neck anything too nice. EDIT: So the first processor I received was faulty and that was giving me issues. The turbo boost and power save features didn't work properly, so it was clocked at 1.75 most of the time, and didn't ramp up quick enough. It also failed Prime95 after a few minutes, so either the processor or the mother board was unstable. Amazon replaced both and were pretty great about it. Other companies don't touch them in customer service. After a few months with this processor, I'm still underwhelmed but it is much better than it was. For surfing the web or a budget HTPC, this processor is probably a good buy. It streams video well, and can handle a decent amount but you're gonna have some lag if you do any serious computing. Still, its about half the price of the A8, so its worth thinking about. The graphics are decent, and would likely be better if I had faster RAM. To the comment that said if I had faster RAM the processor would work better, that's not exactly true. The GPU part will work better, but the CPU part wont be that effected. I plan on upgrading it ASAP.

OK, they have made a mistake in the description which says it's "quad core" when in fact this A6 6400K chip is a "dual core". It's understandable that someone would be a little let down or upset when the item arrives and it's not what it says on the tin. However, having said that, if you're not aware of what exactly it is that you're buying (no offense intended), then the chances are you will never fully realize the potential of a quad core cpu. It's not a big secret that almost all the games on the market are incapable of taking advantage of four cores. So don't fret and think that gaming or photoshop or even your word processor are going to be sluggish because it has only two cores. It won't. Now, having said all that, I have to tell you that this is indeed a fantastic value for money. It's a "black edition", which means that several of the overclocking features haven't been zapped with a laser at the factory and disabled. It used to be that these features were intentionally disabled to prevent people from destroying their cpu with excessive heat. New safety features built into chips these days will shut down the cpu before it melts so "black edition," cpu's have become a fairly trendy marketing strategy trageted at the the "home builder" who likes to tinker. It runs on 65watts instead of 100+ like it's big brothers, the A8 or A10, so it's fairly "green" and will use less energy. It will run cooler too. The transistors are spaced at .32 nanometers which probably impresses god himself and on top of that it even gives you reasonably good gaming graphics with an 800mhz core running 190 pixel pipelines. You just don't know how good you've got it when you consider what was available two or three years ago. It get even better. If you want to turn it into a real gaming beast then you have the option to spend an additional 50 pounds on a HD 6570 graphics card. You can run both internal and external graphics together. Remember though it has to be an HD 6570. Dual graphics support won't work with any other card except it's little brother the HD 6450. This holds true for all FM2 cpu's. Each cpu is designed to run in dual mode with a specific video card for that particular cpu, so always check to see what cards are compatible before you spend any money. Amd tells you which cards are compatible right on the side of the tin, err, I mean box. The real advantage you get here is to increase your "pixel pipelines". As mentined, this cpu has 190 pixel pipelines so if you add in another couple of hundred with an additional card.. well you get the picture. One drawback though is that none of the HD 6570 graphics card come with DDR5 memory but my impression is that it's not a big performance boost. You'll need to spend more money on an A8 or A10 to get DDR5 graphic card compatibility. So do your research before you spend your money. The graphics cards which support DDR5 memory cost the same as the older DDR3 video cards. Something to consider. Also, as I mentioned before, the graphics in this cpu run at 800mhz. About two years ago I spent well over $150 (usa dollars) on a graphics card that boasted that it could be overclocked to 700mhz. Most of the mid-range cards were still running around 600-650mhz on average. If you wanted 800mhz then you would have to spend at least $350. It had a massive fan that sounded like a vacuum cleaner. My whole computer generated so much heat that I had to leave the side case door off or else it could have very well burst into flames. I wore out the fan on the video card in only 3 months of gameplay. It eventually gave out a noise that sounded like tossing a hand full of kids glass marbles into an F16 jet fighter engine. I should also point out that when you buy this cpu and find yourself in a position to find just the right kind of DDR3 memory for your motherboard, you might be surprised to find that the speed of the memory is limited to 1866mhz. You can install some of the faster memory but it will still be limited. I opted for 8gigs of Crucial, "LT2CP4G3D1869DT1TX0CEU Tactical 8GB Kit (4GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR3-1866 PC3-14900 Memory Module by Crucial" I found it here on amazon. I gave it a stellar review. It comes in a totally unique canary yellow. It's beautful looking memory. It can be overclocked but here it runs at 1866mhz maximum. 8 gigs for 60 clams is kinda pricey i'll admit but you have to remember that gaming performance of this cpu will be partially determined by the latency and clock speed of the motherboard memory. The big question is, "how do I set the latency settings in my bios?" I can't help you here. But I can tell you that it's not as difficult as it sounds. If you look in your bios, you'll see that it has a myriad of memory settings, but in fact you'll only have to adjust 3 or 4 of those settings in order to set the latency correctly. I wish could help further but it's beyond the scope of this review. I paired both of these up with a Gigabyte mini-itx motherboard. The F2A88XN-wifi Ultra-Durable motherboard. I always wanted to explore the world of mini-itx and I'm so glad I did as this system is just amazing. The Crucial memory has very short low profile heat spreaders which were necessary to fit next to the cpu heatsink. And this memory is recommended and tested 100% compatible with the motherboard. All and all for 50 bucks this is a fantastic value. I overclocked the cpu to it's factory recommended "turbo speed" of 4.1ghz and then later pushed it to 4.5ghz doing nothing more than increasing the multiplier and it's turned out to be the greatest "bang for your buck" I've ever built. I did however put it back to 4.1ghz as I'm running the stock fan. In the back of my mind I wonder if I should have spent the extra money for an A8 to get a video card that runs DDR5 memory but the cpu runs over 100watts and the power supply in my mini-itx case (like most mini-itx cases) is only 300 watts. So if you're not running mini-itx it's really an option to consider. But I haven't seen overwhelming rave reviews on those video cards so perhaps it's just a bit of hype. It's easy to get carried away when building a computer so I always try to keep in mind the "law of diminishing returns". You reach a point where you're needlessly spending a lot of money for very little performance gain. You have to know when to say "enough is enough." At the end of the day, after purchasing a 21.5" 1080p dvi-d monitor for 80 pounds, the total investment was just slightly over 300 pounds. I feel like I've built a great system that will last me 2 or 3 years. 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Llego muy rapido el envio y en perfectas condiciones. En si el procesador Trabaja Excelente forma y el discipador es muy silencioso. Lo acompañe con la Mobo ASUS A88XM-E y 4gb de RAM 1333 son una maravilla por el precio. Actualmente jugando HoTs 60 FPS Low, Terraria 60Fps, Minecraft 60Fps, Sims4 30Fps Medio. Recomendado para Gaming LowProfile o para Videos en HD.

Con meno di 50€ si dispone di un' ottima cpu dual core con scheda grafica integrata, con cui si può fare in pratica tutto ciò che concerne un utilizzo ordinario di un pc ,e anche di più. L'ho installata con estrema facilità (la pasta termica è compresa e già applicata sul dissipatore) su una scheda madre, che recensisco a parte, ASUS A88X-plus già predisposta per upgrade futuri con le nuove APU di AMD (attualmente le top sono le "Kaveri") che acquisterò tra qualche anno e credo ad ottimo prezzo e ottimi risultati. Configurazione attuale: MB= ASUS A88X-plus- CPU= APU amd a6-6400k RAM=Kingston HyperX Fury Memory Blue Memoria RAM DIMM 4 GB 1866 MHz, DDR3, Classe 10, HD primario = OCZ VERTEX 2 SATA 2 SSD 90gb. Vi assicuro che il pc è MOLTO FLUIDO E PERFORMANTE, dà impressione di grande potenza ed è anche MOLTO SILENZIOSO, Credo che queste APU associate a memorie veloci e di qualità lavorino meglio di molte CPU Intel e con un notevole risparmio. Sono veramente soddisfatto

Lo tengo en una placa ASRock FM2A88M-HD+ con 4 GB DDRAM3 Kingston Hyperx Fury a 1600 Mhz, con Windows 8.1 64 bits y va bastante bien, al menos para ofimática y navegar por Internet, que es lo que suelo hacer, es una manera de tener un Pc de bajo coste con un rendimiento más que decente, además te ahorras tener que montar una tarjeta gráfica, puesto que la que lleva incorporada es mas que decente. Un detalle importante a tener en cuenta, al menos a mi así me pasó, es a la hora de montar el disipador, puesto que yo le he dejado el que venía con el procesador, pues es que viene con la pasta térmica ya aplicada. Yo lo monté así y se me calentaba un montón, no sé si la pasta que traía era de pésima calidad o qué, el caso que tuve que volver a desmontar, limpiar el disipador y aplicar pasta térmica medio decente, ahora no se calienta, lo he monitorizado varias veces y no sube de 35 º C aproximadamente (si vas a darle mucha caña con juegos y eso suelen recomendar un disipador más potente), pero para un uso normalito no está mal el disipador y ventilador que trae. El ventilador es silencioso y controlado automaticamente por la placa base, lo dicho, que si no le vas a dar mucha caña, no hace falta comprar otro.

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