I rank buyers of games in 5 categories
5 star, Mister E-Peen aka The World is Not Enough, I Need More Power (Home Improvement Laugh)
4 star, Enthusiast
3 star, Serious
2 star, Casual
1 star, Just the Sims please
Most console players are the 2 star or 3 star people, either Casual or Serious gamers.
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APUs are predominantly meant for Laptops
Desktop APUs are not meant for the Serious, Enthusiast, or Mister E-Peen. They are meant for people who are just 1 star and 2 star. People who will only spend $130 for CPU+Graphics. For the rest of the groups you can usually get them to spend this amount
1 star ($80 most for Cpu+Graphics), AMD A4 dual cores go for $55, AMD A6 quad cores go for $85, Sandybridge Pentiums are $63, Sandybridge i3 $120
2 star ($130 for Cpu+Graphics) A8/A10 territory or celeron+6670 ddr5, or pentium 6670 ddr3
3 star ($230 to $299) i3 with 7750 on low end, i5 with 7750 on high end (so in sum about $100ish for video card without cpu cost)
4 star ($299 to $450) i5 with 6870/560, i5 with 7850, i7 with 6870/560 (aka no more than $200 on video card)
5 star ($550 to $900) i7 with 7850 or above (they want an i7 and a video card that costs at least $200)
The place for the APUs in desktops are for Casual or Just the Sims please. These people are extremely price conscious and almost never build a computer themselves instead getting a prebuilt from hp, dell, acer etc.
If you get someone building a computer themselves and gaming is priority they are almost a serious gamer or above. Very rarely will you find a casual gamer building a computer from scratch, though you will still see people build apus based systems that are casual gamers for they are very price conscious.
So in sum frozentundra the APUs are not meant for you for you are at least a 3 star or above in seriousness in gaming. AMD will try to get you buy an FX processor+Video Card but in my opinion that is a stupid mistake for an i5 is just so much better in gaming and is a better cpu in 70% of tasks. (The i7 is better than an FX in about 98% of tasks.) In your case their is no point of the APUs. But in retail in prebuilt computers it makes a big deal having that $500 total price computer for that single mom with her 13 year old son who wants to play wow.