AMD A10-7800 Review

I tested the two APUs back-to-back on the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming motherboard that I previously reviewed for KitGuru, along with 16GB of dual channel AMD Radeon R9 DDR3-2400 memory, an Intel 520 SSD with SandForce controller, a Be Quiet Straight Power 400W PSU and a Noctua NH-L12 with the fan speed set low.

The Operating System is 64-bit Windows 7 Professional.

The Be Quiet PSU is remarkably quiet (as you would expect from the name) and overall the system was nigh on silent.

I did four sets of bench mark tests starting with the A10-7800 at default speeds with the memory running at 1866MHz. For the second run I enabled AMP and increased the memory speed to 2133MHz.

After that I switched to the A10-7850K at stock clock speed however I enabled AMP and ran the memory at 2400MHz. Finally I used the OC Genie function in the MSI A88X-G45 to overclock the APU to a maximum speed of 4.55GHz, with the memory still running at 2400MHz.

A10 7800 BIOS SETTINGS

A10 7850K BIOS SETTINGS

I started this review with some bad news as BIOS v1.1 on the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming has an option called cTDP function – however it was set to Auto and didn't have an option to change to a different setting.

Happily I was sent an update v1.2B6 that allowed me to pick a TDP down to the figure of 45W, which meant I could insert a fifth set of test figures with the A10-7800 throttled to 45W and with AMP enabled to run the memory at DDR3-2133.

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