Question 1

how many gpu's does it have and how fast are they?

Accepted Answer

8 gpus. Not sure how fast they are, but we ended up abandoning the gpus in the process for an nvidia gtx 960, as there was lag in rendering games like gta v and flight sim x

Question 2

Does this come with a heatsink/fan? or is their "thermal solution" paste?

Accepted Answer

It comes with a heat sink and fan. The heat sink has a standard square thermal pad (paste/glue) on it... pretty sure most heat sinks do these days.

Question 3

What is the memory max. with this processor?

Accepted Answer

You have to really dig for it on AMD's website but it says the memory controller is built into the processor and it's limit is 2133mhz. If you have a MB that allows it, you can O'C it to as high as the MB will allow. Hope this helps,
BigBear

Question 4

I have an HP EliteDesk G1 Desktop Mini that currently has an A8 7600B.  Would I be able to keep it cool enough in this little casing?  The current processor does not get warm at all, and seems to run even cooler with the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drive swapped in now.  I know I would need to get more power to it with it being a 95w CPU vs the A8's 65w in this application.  Obviously I would never overclock it in this application.  Just trying to squeeze the most performance I can out of this little box.

Accepted Answer

I am using the started cooling fan and never hava had cooling issues, as long there is a little space between the fan and case, it should be fine, it also depends on what you are doing with it.  If you are gaming at pushing the pcu continously, then it might.  If you are using for watching videos or the Internet it should be fine

Question 5

Is this A10-7870K better and or faster than the AMD Athlon X4 860k I'm running at 4.0Ghz now ?  I am using a R9 380 4GB video card with it. Also, with this CPU (A10-7870K) could I run Crossfire by enabling on board R7 with the R9 380 ? I'm asking this because my 860k works hard at about 80-90% when playing the new DOOM game.

Accepted Answer

Looking at Features and Performance, these two CPUs are almost identical in performance.  It would not be a significant upgrade to your system to switch to the A10.

As for Crossfire - not all games support it.  So, it may be of no benefit to you.

An honest suggestion would be to wait a bit before upgrading.  Look towards the next gen video cards - the RX 480 video card.

As for the CPU, your options right now are to either aim for an 8-core CPU, or wait for the next generation release later this year.  That will require a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM - regardless of whether you go Intel or AMD.

Question 6

what is the gpu speed on the 8 gpu cores please?

Accepted Answer

866 mhz. Look up AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors on wiki. Just type "amd accelerated processing wiki" in google then look for the gpu in the list.

Question 7

why doesn't it display the gpu speed it say it is supposed to be 1100mhz gpu on the site at gigabyte for the ga f2a88x-d3hp motherboard and yet i can't find one since the sales people say it is an 866 mhz gpu on this model so what's up? and the newegg site don't display gpu speed at all so you buy it and have to return and they may refuse because you already opened the box right. well send back anyway the have to if it hasn't been fifteen days. and the box should proudly display the gpu speed on it but it doesn't. why is that?

Accepted Answer

GPU speed is 866mhz. Such info can be found at wiki "list of AMD accelerated processing unit microprocessors"  I tried to give link but Newegg won't allow. 1100mhz on gigabyte might be an overclocking rating.

Questions & Answers