AMD APU plays Crysis 2 on GIGABYTE A75M-UD2H mobo

[RalphCQ]

I was planning on Bulldozer FX, but now I know that would've been a mistake. I know people who are selling their AM3+ boards on ebay, actually.

But AMD Fusion is a great product, and I am seriously considering it for my next system. Gonna wait for em to get better/faster tho.

[dave777blaster]

pretty nice but I will wait for trinity apu with pile drivrer

I want the best 1

[hentosama]

looks like 1024x768 basic settings still good

[napster0221]

which is the processor cooler? thanks.

[djtoddmurphy]

u can play crysis 2 on anything apparently

[x4dow]

@DeLuisAngelReturns AMD? you mean ATI? Nvidia eats them all.

[DeLuisAngelReturns]

@x4dow ATI dont exist, now is AMD, it is the same thing only change the name. ¿¿Nvidia eats ati???? xD you are funny, NVIDIA and INTEL are shits, Nvidia dont belong to AMD idiot.

[x4dow]

AMD FOR GAMING HELL YEAH>.... shame that they never show up on the top 1000 of 3dmark....

intel ftw. care about grafics? get a big Nvidia :)

[froznxe0n]

is that a corsair AX1200W PSU for a no-GPU system?? lol

[DeLuisAngelReturns]

congratulations AMD

[keshaz12]

Resoultion?

If its 800x640 with low settings im not amazed :\

[darthbandon10]

@keshaz12 It's close to the Radeon HD5570 in most games.

[napster0221]

its OC ? 

[1994asert]

play video a game record in asus and amd x6?

[xfiles4you]

I work for GIGABYTE and I do appreciate the continues effort in increasing performance and technologic.

Of course not all solution are the best one for everybody as we all have different needs and perception.

I am proud about the continue efforts GIGABYTE does in upgrading our digital life with always new stunning motherboards.

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In case of any need, please let me know !

I wish a god day to you all 

[BladeHunterXD]

This is very exciting! We can finally say goodbye to low graphics machines. Now any cheap budget lappy/rig can play very decent games!! Might save up and build a super budget rig as a present for my bro, he still has crappy 64mb integrated graphics xP. :)

[nadeem014014]

they make these motherboards after the games gets old......will new high end games work on this board...i guess answer is NO..........igp sucks....

[XxBlakpaladinxX]

@nadeem014014 Sure the games might be old, but look at it from a relative perspective. The horsepower needed in a GPU to run crysis is kind of ridicoulous, and here we have an IGP running it smoothly - That's something to feel accomplished about. we're not talkin low end graphics card here, we're talkin straight up shitty old Integrated Graphics. You runnin an Intel by any chance?

[nadeem014014]

@XxBlakpaladinxX NOP....i am not using intel...i have a gigabyte ga785gmt usb3.0 with hd 4200 IGP and,phenom 2 x2 555 unlockable and over clockable and transcend 4gig ddr3 1333 ram......last good game i played smoothly was cod mw2....black ops with lowest setting......i am not saying agp is not cool ....its good when u cant afford a seperate graphic card...but at some point AGP will also be useless..unless u can run igp and dedicated graphic card together..wouldn't it give the best performance.

[vitalblast]

@nadeem014014 THIS IS AN APU NOT an AGP, agp slots died years ago close to a decade ago they were replaced by pci-E remember agp is already and has already been useless

[nadeem014014]

@vitalblast couldn't believe i wrote agp in place of igp 2 times.....typing mistake.....LOL

[vsaR1SK]

crisis facepalm

[RockManAU]

Hello GIGABYTE, Can't find and Memory Support List links that work on any of your A75 product pages. Get it together please! Stop playing Crysis and do some work guys lol

Game On! or off in this case plz

[RockManAU]

BTW the APU shows as 500MHz stock b 4 OC'ing not 600MHz as mentioned.

@dukeeaglesfan Yes that's what I was trying to say "at the same time". Independantly the wrong word really, lol.

[RockManAU]

I had to laugh when he said "nothing too fancy here" when the APU cooler is so huge it would almost need it's own tower! Well it's as big as the PSU anyway!

Yes the question is Can you use the APU independently from your discrete GFX card? Only short term benifit I could see.

Personally I think I was more impressed with the amt they OC'd the RAM (1333 to 2240MHz)! Haven't done any OC'ing in years but that sounds like a huge increase to me over 80% wow! Again huge RAM coolers there.

AMD ftw

[dan4patriots1]

you cant play crysis on this, Play the OG Crysis and it wont be the same

[xlaleclx]

"You cant play Crysis on an IGP" When my 560 was screwed up I was playing Crysis 2 and Shogun 2 on my integrated 4250

[champion1642]

@xlaleclx Definitely not on high GFX Settings though...

[dukeeaglesfan]

the thing is can you use both a discrete graphics card and the apu processing at the same time?

[XxBlakpaladinxX]

@dukeeaglesfan yes you can. BUT with only certain GFX cards. I think the 6470 is the top card you can match up with this APU.

[GBTFrance]

What a great solution for mainstream PC without discrete graphic card !

Even if during the test the APU is OCed results are impressive. We could imagine the potential of such a chipset. Don't forget that AMD integrate radeon solution into their APU...

Anf for hardcore gamers, they could still add discrete graphic card... :)

[TheJoeBiza]

It's pretty damn good for only 140 and the New fm1 socket motherboards from Asus and Gig are pretty high quality too with all the USB 3.0 and what not. I'm doing a build with this processor in the next couple weeks here and it's perfect since I'm running on a mid range budget.

[growingup2204]

u guys didnt notice it was oced to hell ?

[swagen107]

SO THIS IS THE END OF LOW-END GRAPHIC CARDS!

[AmH032uTuBe]

@swagen107 AMD I believe has even been thinking about scrapping low end discrete GPUs. But seriously. If you just want a general purpose computing experience to display a visual output, and that's all - then an APU is more energy efficient and makes more sense.

If you're buying a dedicated GPU, it only makes lots of sense to be paying for high-end or high-midrange graphics cards.

But yes, I can see the low-end dedicated GPU market dying out.

[AmH032uTuBe]

@AmH032uTuBe The only thing that may keep it alive in my opinion, is the image quality for low-end dedicated GPUs for HTPC uses. Lower end, and especially IGPs, tend to have low image quality, worse de-interlacing and colour reproduction, etcetera. But if they can make the image quality just as good with these APUs, then I don't see any particular or sensible reason for the low-end dedicated GPU market to exist any more.

[mikeccuk2006]

@swagen107

Low end GPU rarely sell in Retail. Now OEM is going to use APU instead I hope !

[BassPounderX]

@swagen107 yea i guess so who wil need one when u can get a midrange one with ur cpu just liek intels integreted gpus they are not good by far but are good for most things

[softworn]

@swagen107 Not really. There are still years worth of DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games to come. All of the major game developers have been meeting DirectX 9 requirements on their big titles. This is the first "low-end standard" for DirectX 11. Something like this will be the bear minimum years from now. People thought Nvidia's Nforce IGP would be an end to low-end graphics, but that is not the case. The bar is just getting raised again -- such is the life of computer hardware and software.

[Sepharite]

What's IGP? Are those like laptop stuff?

[RandyBlader]

@Sepharite IGP its integrated graphic procesor I guess

[XxBlakpaladinxX]

@Sepharite Integrated Graphics.

[TheMaristBoy]

on what settings was Crysis 2 running on?

[Fossillarson]

WILL THIS WORK WITH MY XFX 6870????????

[IAmSomeoneOrOther]

@Fossillarson I don't see why not, after all a PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot is largely useless if it doesn't work with what most commonly populates it.

[rubix63]

@IAmSomeoneOrOther it will, but the apu is going to bottleneck the gpu

[rubix63]

@Fossillarson it will, but the apu is going to bottleneck the gpu

[aboriad15]

i am thinking about dropping my mainstream gaming pc for this!!!

[feuchster]

@aboriad15 Don't.

[aboriad15]

@feuchster

Why ???

[feuchster]

@aboriad15 Because this apu is for cheap low end gaming. A mainstream gaming rig is obviously better.

[aboriad15]

@feuchster

We will have to wait to see how far can it go in the future :D

[champion1642]

@feuchster Not if you add 1 6970, combined with what the APU already has, using crossfire interlink, you will end up with a MONSTER GAMING system... up to 40% fps increase, with just 1 dedicated GFX card. hope they implement the same tech in their new "Bulldozer" 22mn Processor.

[bornwisedistruction]

@champion1642 If they include this tech in bulldozer i will run from intel and nvidia do you hear me run not walk!

[RyansworId]

@bornwisedistruction Bulldozer is a stand alone CPU. Not an APU sadly.

[CoparGaming]

@bornwisedistruction bulldozer is gonna be like phenom 1100T x2 with APU...gonna be sweet

[XxBlakpaladinxX]

@champion1642 Bulldozer will remain 32nm process for now. Until next gen is released sometime next year.

[champion1642]

@XxBlakpaladinxX Yes, I know, I was just saying that I hope they include APU tech in the 22MN processor since they are not going to in the 32MN processor.

[kizmetx]

Not bad for onboard. Makes me wonder if GPUs are going the way of the sound card.

[monstercameron]

arent you the guys from the VIA youtube channel

[jonap1st]

no matter what the bollock's said, no IGP can run crysis even on low settings at 40fps until this APU comes out..

[troy28790]

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[shavrin28]

@troy28790 you are working for Intel or what?

AMD Rulezz!

[maroom1]

Not forget that they have overclocked the APU

At stock speeds, the performance is going to be worse

[FLTechSergeant]

A couple key points. Crysis 2 is a console port. Thus, not quite as graphically intensive as something like Battlefield 3. Performance seems to be on par with Starcraft 2. What kind of frame rates were you getting without the APU overclocked? :)

[90arni]

@FLTechSergeant Crysis 2 is NOT a console port. And console ports are generally harder to run fluently, due to bad porting. Crysis 2 is actually very optimized and plays very good on modest hardware, especially when graphics quality is accounted for. A lot of games available for PC are console ports these days, but Crysis 2 is NOT one of them.

[FLTechSergeant]

@90arni Double check your data. The game was optimized for console, not PC. :) I see a lot of comments saying it's not a console port. But, they can rationalize it all they want. "...optimized for console..." :)

[kn00tcn]

@FLTechSergeant just some level design, sure that totally is all you need to optimize on consoles...

now there's dx11 plus a high rez texture pack, & you could change the cvars since the beta, how is it optimized for console now?

[monstercameron]

@90arni the new update optimizes and adds PC gamers features...before though, it was a horrible port!

[empty19941]

whoa not bad for APU, good job AMD

[Kloborgg]

If you can't accept that this is impressive, you're lying to yourself.

[Henrique77Veloso]

its my impression or there are almost only haters here?

For a built in "IGP" its great, terrific feature to even play crysis 2 at 40fps (although the "1" is heavier then 2)

try that on de HD2000 or HD3000 !!!

But the memory over to 2000+ plays a major role, because the igp will use the ram as "vram", I guess

The "cpu" over was not extreme, at only @3,6.

But crysis 2 at 40 fps, very impressive!!!

[HHO4ALL]

Is that the Dual or Quad Core APU? The graphics look great, but I can't see how most people would be able to fit that monster CPU Heatsink in their case!

Liquid cooled might be a better way to go, because you could push the CPU/GPU even further.

[cammz3]

@HHO4ALL I have a CPU cooler twice the size inside my case - the NH-D14. Beats the H70 in most benchmarks and is much quieter. ;)

Liquid cooling is better, but not by a huge margin. It is often louder too.

[xXxT0MBstonexXx]

@cammz3 Actually CHEAP liquid cooling like the H70 is louder. a good liquid cooling system such as a custom loop can be near silent at around 10db. liquid cooling is as loud as the fan your using so it will be nearly identical to air cooling if you test both side by side with the same fan but liquid will give you much better cooling if its a full loop. the H70 sucks because the radiator is too small to effectively cool anything without increasing the fan speed

[cammz3]

@xXxT0MBstonexXx Large pumps also emit a fair amount of noise.

[xXxT0MBstonexXx]

@cammz3 only if you decide not to insulate them. simply create a small box slightly larger than the pump and put acoustic dampening material inside (nonflammable of course cuz the pump will get pretty hot if its closed up like that). cut out the holes for the tubing and then once you install the tubing just use some silicon glue to close the gaps. if you do it right you will have a silent pump. of course you still have to mount it to your case properly to get rid of any vibrations but thats easy

[MrXaborus]

@xXxT0MBstonexXx

Which fans for 10DB? Seriously, i would love to know. I was actually thinking of building a water cooled APU rig..

[xXxT0MBstonexXx]

Scythe GentleTyphoons. they come in different speeds. just buy the one and get a good fan controller and your set. the 1150RPM model is only 16db so just turn it down a bit and you wont hear it unless its right in your face. BTW the fastest one is 2150RPM and its fairly loud so dont buy that one if you want silent. however the competition is much much louder at 2150 RPMs. Scythe GentleTyphoons are the best in terms of performance and noise level. there are faster fans out there but insanely loud

[90arni]

@HHO4ALL Quad, A8-3850. The Thermaltake FRIO is not really that big either, but I do not see why you would build a PC in a tower with this APU. I can see this as a great performer in mid-sized laptops, HTPCs and other low-power consumption environments.

[pacsmile]

1.520 Vcore?, you are burning that poor cpu

[qtopthisq]

ya this is cool so u go out yay i got my apu a new game comes out, "i want to max it out" u want a new graphic card o wait.....

[Aaronage1]

Nice, but I want to see more than 3.6GHz from those 32nm K10 cores.

I hope the GPU has its own multiplier to allow for higher clocks on the CPU side.

[wjh919]

err isn't it Crysis 2 not Crisis?

[chatch15117]

OLOLOLOLOOL 6000 POINTS

but yeah the cpu score is on par with an x4 955 overclocked

[nelQ01]

SRP in dollar US??

[lezbriddon]

OMG look at that heatsink, this aint no eco machine is it..... Looking at a system build for a htpc/games machine, i guess these mb's are out of the running!

That is one thing that MB manufactures are going to HAVE to start to do, quote Watts for the mb and expected powerconsuption, a little like cars have to have MPG estimates, electricity isnt free!

[ViXoZuDo]

@lezbriddon that's a thermaltake FRIO, not the stock cooling...

[luap627]

is that crysis 2 version is playing on dx11?