The Official Kaveri Review Thread (A10-7850K, etc)

[AtenRa]

!? you answer quoting Australian prices:

I didnt realize he was in Australia, but even with his prices the A10-7700k is cheaper than the cheapest Core i5.

seems like you think the Australian prices (specifically the difference between 7700K and it 4440) are reasonable, I don't, the difference should be bigger, or the 7700K makes no sense,

If you only see the two of them as CPU ONLY, then 7700K is expensive. But if you see them as APUs then the 7700K is cheaper providing better Gaming and OpenCL performance making the Core i5 expensive.
So as i have said so many times, depends on what you are looking for. Its price may not make sense to you but it will make sense to someone else.

 

[SPBHM]

I didnt realize he was in Australia, but even with his prices the A10-7700k is cheaper than the cheapest Core i5.



If you only see the two of them as CPU ONLY, then 7700K is expensive. But if you see them as APUs then the 7700K is cheaper providing better Gaming and OpenCL performance making the Core i5 expensive.
So as i have said so many times, depends on what you are looking for. Its price may not make sense to you but it will make sense to someone else.

the prices are to close, close enough for me to call the same, even more because the prices he mentioned are not for the full 7850K,

but regardless, even newegg prices are bad for Kaveri, as I said, A10 5800K was a $12x APU when i5s were $180, 2 years later, did Kaveri bring enough gain to justify the new prices?

better (compared to 7700/7850) gaming can be achieved with other solutions for the same money.

 

[coercitiv]

better (compared to 7700/7850) gaming can be achieved with other solutions for the same money.

care to elaborate?