Recently purchased & installed this APU into my new pc w/Windows 8. Under task manager, it shows "2 cores, 4 Logical processors". Is that normal?
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Yes - there are many sites that can provide a technical answer. Try searching "Bulldozer (microarchitecture)" and Wikipedia will provide as good an answer as any.
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It's just an Athlon processor at that point. If you aren't wanting to use the gpu I would get either an FX chip or Intel chip depending on your preferences. This should still work but it's not as good as either of those. The AMD APU's are really designed to be a cheap solution for an integrated chipset setup.
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I see that same thing in my task manager. I'm not sure, I do know for sure that this motherboard has custom soldered on 4gb of RAM in dual channel configuration and zero sodimm slots period. So, you can not upgrade. It is likely the processor and chipset are able to support another slot, if there were one. Asus has clearly really customized this machine to cram everything in here.
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The processor is embedded already. And cannot be replaced. (And the cpu traces are propriatary to this line of APUs) However this is running the temash series of APUs from AMD.
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NO! the MSI A88XM Gaming is a "Fusion" class MoBo for FM2 & FM2+ APU whereas the components you are discribing would be for AM3+... Additionally, as a long time AMD Solutions provider, I can tell you, as much as I like Nvidia, that running AMD video controller on AMD chipset is a stronger recipe for speed & stability! I would also encourage using AMD or Samsung SSD as primary boot & program drive... Hard Drives for BU and Game repository...
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No. It is one physical i5; that processor is hyper-threaded and a dual core processor, giving you 4 threads. http://ark.intel.com/m/products/65707
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I've tried everything to get it working right and nothing. I have a Trinity and a Richland and have the same problem with both. CoreTemp reads 8C on idle, but the Bios reads the right temp. Two of my friends have APU's and have the same problem. We are thinking 2 things AMD did something so they we not read right on third party programs (It doesn't work even on their own software either) or none of the programs have been updated for the APU's. I tried to Google a answer for you, but could not fine one.
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Before replying, may I suggest you get the newer version, CorelDraw X6. Another Amazon vendor is offering the X6 version for just a dollar or two more, which is the product I purchased just last week. You used the term "upgrade." However, nothing I noticed in the product I recently purchased identified it as an upgrade. On the "honor system," you're expected to be a home or student user, thus entitling you to purchase this full X6 version I purchased at a deeply discounted price. You'd also be entitled to making three installations and a license number was provided with the product, too. In other words, it's a full version, not an upgrade version. I installed it without a hitch. By the way, I'm also running Windows 7 Home Premium on an I5-3450 processor. So, as far as I can tell, you'd be perfectly "good to go" buying the X6 version I purchased for about the same price. Good luck with it.
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Hi yeah Ive seen that too. The model I purchased is a core i5. Hope that helps
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I use an onboard GPU (or APU) and the graphics card, i ran APU and GPU V.S. Them working together, i got [nearly] same score in two different benchmarks, i would say get a CPU and a dedicated GPU.
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You should do a search to verify, but I believe the Intel Core i7-3770 Processor has 4 cores with increased performance by Hyper-Threading technology.
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It all depends on the production date of the board you receive. If you are worried about support for a particular CPU, you shouldn't have to worry anymore as all new boards will have a recent enough BIOS for all FM2+ CPUs and APUs.
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I can't find any information on the existence of an A7 apu/cpu. The A10-7700k is a power hungry cpu and fits in FM2+ socket that needs to be cooled and probably can't be cooled enough inside a TV
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i got one last week and it boot up as A20 dual core not and A31 quad core what happened MAIL QUAD IS GRAPHIC PROCESSOR IT IS RUNNING ANDRIOD 4.2.2
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As far as I can tell, the version I have (Model P500-20210) is Intel Core i5-3210m CPU with 2.50 GHz. So that would make it a dual core with four threads.
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Ill be honest with you, the processor is great but i still cant find the way to put it into the new Dual Graphics System (Graphics Card +Gpu from APU) but i got 2 r9 270x in crossfire so i dont need it very much.But answering your question about if getting or not an A10 APU ill tell you, go for a FX instead, because if you got a graphics card dedicated you wont need the Apu GPU at all...
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This does not have a 8 core processor. Also Amd is good. but i tend to lean towards intel. i can tell you this.. this laptop renders 3d faster than my friends i7. its a good buy.