Originally posted by GrayGhost79

Originally posted by grndzro

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

Originally posted by grndzro

Originally posted by jdnewell

You want to get the AMD A-10 processor for the integrated graphics. The FX cpu is not what you need.

Look at the A-10 and motherboards for it, otherwise you will have to buy a cheap gpu that is not any better and may be worse than the integrated.

On a budget I think you would be better off sourcing a Phenom 2 x4/X6 (Thuban or Zosma) from Ebay at a low price and getting at least a Radeon 7770.

On that budget the only way to play GW2 at acceptable resolution framerates and quality is to get some good deals on ebay IMO.

Pairing an AMD A10 with a 6670 gives the graphical performance close to a 7850. Going the Phenom 2 and 7770 route you are going to pay more and get less out of it. 

Having just built an AMD A10 right paired with a 6670 recently I can say with certainty it is a much better option than the phenom 2 and 7770. 

An 13 with a 7770 is slightly better than the A10 and a 6670 but its also more expensive. 

 

A true budget gaming rig benefits from an A10 paired with a 6670 giving you a good bit of performance for next to nothing. 

Hybrid Crossfire dosent work in GW2. it is still DX9. Reccomending it for GW2 makes no sense.

That would me my bad for glosing over the GW2 requirement lol. Yes in regards to GW2 specifically the phenom 7770 combo would be better. My appologies for not paying full attention, it is Sat. night after all lol. 

No problem lol that wasn't off the top of my head either. Only found it in my mad dash trying to avoid being wrong ^^

And in order to make the Hybrid crossfire really shine pretty much requires very fast ram and overclocking everything, Thus adding more $ to what would normally be an HTPC build.

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

Originally posted by grndzro

Originally posted by jdnewell

You want to get the AMD A-10 processor for the integrated graphics. The FX cpu is not what you need.

Look at the A-10 and motherboards for it, otherwise you will have to buy a cheap gpu that is not any better and may be worse than the integrated.

On a budget I think you would be better off sourcing a Phenom 2 x4/X6 (Thuban or Zosma) from Ebay at a low price and getting at least a Radeon 7770.

On that budget the only way to play GW2 at acceptable resolution framerates and quality is to get some good deals on ebay IMO.

Pairing an AMD A10 with a 6670 gives the graphical performance close to a 7850. Going the Phenom 2 and 7770 route you are going to pay more and get less out of it. 

Having just built an AMD A10 right paired with a 6670 recently I can say with certainty it is a much better option than the phenom 2 and 7770. 

An 13 with a 7770 is slightly better than the A10 and a 6670 but its also more expensive. 

 

A true budget gaming rig benefits from an A10 paired with a 6670 giving you a good bit of performance for next to nothing. 

The point of Trinity is to use the integrated graphics.  There's no sense in getting a Trinity system and adding a discrete video card.

Hybrid CrossFire is a bad idea.  It's erratic at best, and will give you much bigger driver problems than "normal" CrossFire.  And even normal CrossFire (or SLI) with low end cards is a bad idea right from the start.  Hybrid CrossFire is worse, and will sometimes give performance worse than just using the integrated graphics alone.

Originally posted by Quizzical

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

Originally posted by grndzro

Originally posted by jdnewell

You want to get the AMD A-10 processor for the integrated graphics. The FX cpu is not what you need.

Look at the A-10 and motherboards for it, otherwise you will have to buy a cheap gpu that is not any better and may be worse than the integrated.

On a budget I think you would be better off sourcing a Phenom 2 x4/X6 (Thuban or Zosma) from Ebay at a low price and getting at least a Radeon 7770.

On that budget the only way to play GW2 at acceptable resolution framerates and quality is to get some good deals on ebay IMO.

Pairing an AMD A10 with a 6670 gives the graphical performance close to a 7850. Going the Phenom 2 and 7770 route you are going to pay more and get less out of it. 

Having just built an AMD A10 right paired with a 6670 recently I can say with certainty it is a much better option than the phenom 2 and 7770. 

An 13 with a 7770 is slightly better than the A10 and a 6670 but its also more expensive. 

 

A true budget gaming rig benefits from an A10 paired with a 6670 giving you a good bit of performance for next to nothing. 

The point of Trinity is to use the integrated graphics.  There's no sense in getting a Trinity system and adding a discrete video card.

Hybrid CrossFire is a bad idea.  It's erratic at best, and will give you much bigger driver problems than "normal" CrossFire.  And even normal CrossFire (or SLI) with low end cards is a bad idea right from the start.  Hybrid CrossFire is worse, and will sometimes give performance worse than just using the integrated graphics alone.

So far I've had great experiences with it. I've actually come to love building new APU rigs. I've built 3 Llanos and 1 Trinity, waiting on parts for my second Trinity build. 

The Hybrid Crossfire has proven to be pretty good. It sadly takes a great deal of trial and error and some wonky setup to get everything up to snuff but once you do its proven to be worth it. 

In all honesty I think I like building the APU Hybrid Crossfire rigs purely because of the difficulty in setting it up lol! When you finally get it perfectly setup and running as it should theres a nice sense of accomplishment.