AMD APU A6 6400K Black Edition Quad Core-processor (Socket FM2, Dual Core, 3.9GHz, 1MB, 65W, AD640KOKHLBOX, Richland, Turbo Core 3.0-technologie, virtualisatietechnologie)

OK, they have made a mistake in the description which says it's "quad core" when in fact this A6 6400K chip is a "dual core". It's understandable that someone would be a little let down or upset when the item arrives and it's not what it says on the tin. However, having said that, if you're not aware of what exactly it is that you're buying (no offense intended), then the chances are you will never fully realize the potential of a quad core cpu. It's not a big secret that almost all the games on the market are incapable of taking advantage of four cores. So don't fret and think that gaming or photoshop or even your word processor are going to be sluggish because it has only two cores. It won't.Now, having said all that, I have to tell you that this is indeed a fantastic value for money. It's a "black edition", which means that several of the overclocking features haven't been zapped with a laser at the factory and disabled. It used to be that these features were intentionally disabled to prevent people from destroying their cpu with excessive heat. New safety features built into chips these days will shut down the cpu before it melts so "black edition," cpu's have become a fairly trendy marketing strategy trageted at the the "home builder" who likes to tinker.It runs on 65watts instead of 100+ like it's big brothers, the A8 or A10, so it's fairly "green" and will use less energy. It will run cooler too. The transistors are spaced at .32 nanometers which probably impresses god himself and on top of that it even gives you reasonably good gaming graphics with an 800mhz core running 190 pixel pipelines. You just don't know how good you've got it when you consider what was available two or three years ago.It get even better. If you want to turn it into a real gaming beast then you have the option to spend an additional 50 pounds on a HD 6570 graphics card. You can run both internal and external graphics together. Remember though it has to be an HD 6570. Dual graphics support won't work with any other card except it's little brother the HD 6450. This holds true for all FM2 cpu's. Each cpu is designed to run in dual mode with a specific video card for that particular cpu, so always check to see what cards are compatible before you spend any money. Amd tells you which cards are compatible right on the side of the tin, err, I mean box.The real advantage you get here is to increase your "pixel pipelines". As mentined, this cpu has 190 pixel pipelines so if you add in another couple of hundred with an additional card.. well you get the picture. One drawback though is that none of the HD 6570 graphics card come with DDR5 memory but my impression is that it's not a big performance boost. You'll need to spend more money on an A8 or A10 to get DDR5 graphic card compatibility. So do your research before you spend your money. The graphics cards which support DDR5 memory cost the same as the older DDR3 video cards. Something to consider.Also, as I mentioned before, the graphics in this cpu run at 800mhz. About two years ago I spent well over $150 (usa dollars) on a graphics card that boasted that it could be overclocked to 700mhz. Most of the mid-range cards were still running around 600-650mhz on average. If you wanted 800mhz then you would have to spend at least $350. It had a massive fan that sounded like a vacuum cleaner. My whole computer generated so much heat that I had to leave the side case door off or else it could have very well burst into flames. I wore out the fan on the video card in only 3 months of gameplay. It eventually gave out a noise that sounded like tossing a hand full of kids glass marbles into an F16 jet fighter engine.I should also point out that when you buy this cpu and find yourself in a position to find just the right kind of DDR3 memory for your motherboard, you might be surprised to find that the speed of the memory is limited to 1866mhz. You can install some of the faster memory but it will still be limited. I opted for 8gigs of Crucial, "LT2CP4G3D1869DT1TX0CEU Tactical 8GB Kit (4GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR3-1866 PC3-14900 Memory Module by Crucial" I found it here on amazon. I gave it a stellar review. It comes in a totally unique canary yellow. It's beautful looking memory. It can be overclocked but here it runs at 1866mhz maximum. 8 gigs for 60 clams is kinda pricey i'll admit but you have to remember that gaming performance of this cpu will be partially determined by the latency and clock speed of the motherboard memory. The big question is, "how do I set the latency settings in my bios?" I can't help you here. But I can tell you that it's not as difficult as it sounds. If you look in your bios, you'll see that it has a myriad of memory settings, but in fact you'll only have to adjust 3 or 4 of those settings in order to set the latency correctly. I wish could help further but it's beyond the scope of this review.I paired both of these up with a Gigabyte mini-itx motherboard. The F2A88XN-wifi Ultra-Durable motherboard. I always wanted to explore the world of mini-itx and I'm so glad I did as this system is just amazing. The Crucial memory has very short low profile heat spreaders which were necessary to fit next to the cpu heatsink. And this memory is recommended and tested 100% compatible with the motherboard.All and all for 50 bucks this is a fantastic value. I overclocked the cpu to it's factory recommended "turbo speed" of 4.1ghz and then later pushed it to 4.5ghz doing nothing more than increasing the multiplier and it's turned out to be the greatest "bang for your buck" I've ever built. I did however put it back to 4.1ghz as I'm running the stock fan.In the back of my mind I wonder if I should have spent the extra money for an A8 to get a video card that runs DDR5 memory but the cpu runs over 100watts and the power supply in my mini-itx case (like most mini-itx cases) is only 300 watts. So if you're not running mini-itx it's really an option to consider. But I haven't seen overwhelming rave reviews on those video cards so perhaps it's just a bit of hype. It's easy to get carried away when building a computer so I always try to keep in mind the "law of diminishing returns". You reach a point where you're needlessly spending a lot of money for very little performance gain. You have to know when to say "enough is enough."At the end of the day, after purchasing a 21.5" 1080p dvi-d monitor for 80 pounds, the total investment was just slightly over 300 pounds. I feel like I've built a great system that will last me 2 or 3 years.If you find my review useful please indicate by hitting the button! :-)I most certainly recommend this to you without reservation.

Llego muy rapido el envio y en perfectas condiciones.En si el procesador Trabaja Excelente forma y el discipador es muy silencioso.Lo acompañe con la Mobo ASUS A88XM-E y 4gb de RAM 1333 son una maravilla por el precio.Actualmente jugando HoTs 60 FPS Low, Terraria 60Fps, Minecraft 60Fps, Sims4 30Fps Medio.Recomendado para Gaming LowProfile o para Videos en HD.

Generalità:Con una cifra di circa 50€ ci si porta a casa un discreto processore con una discreta scheda video.Sì, avete capito bene, discreto (e non mediocre). Stiamo parlando di un processore ultra-economico dalle performance sicuramente superiori rispetto al suo prezzo.Ottima scelta per assemblare un pc economico ma che non rinuncia a niente, nemmeno a giocare (senza pretese).Interessante la possibilità di poter realizzare il dual graphics qualora si voglia incrementare le prestazioni grafiche del sistema, anche in un secondo momento (perchè forse magari al momento dell'assemblaggio non si hanno i fondi per la scheda video dedicata).Installazione e componenti:E' sufficiente inserire il processore nel socket FM2 della vostra scheda madre ed una volta bloccato in posizione è possibile installare il dissipatore. Quello in dotazione ha già la pasta termica applicata ed è veramente facile da posizionare. Il dissipatore è compatto, come la stragrande maggioranza di quelli stock, e la rumorosità della ventola è più che accettabile: ricordate che dipende dall'uso che ne fate. Essendo PWM (cioè i giri della ventola sono variabili e regolati in base alla temperatura della cpu), la rumorosità dipende da ciò che state facendo: navigazione web - scrittura, rumore impercettibile; gaming in estate, rumore percettibile.Sinceramente dato il basso wattaggio del processore, sconsiglierei di spendere soldi per cambiare dissipatore; spendere ad esempio 50 euro per un processore e 20 per un dissipatore non mi sembra una scelta economicamente vantaggiosa. Tanto vale allora spendere 20 euro in più per salire di categoria col processore.Consigli:- sul dissipatore si è già detto: data la fascia di prezzo del processore ed il suo basso wattaggio, sconsiglio di spendere soldi per cambiarlo (meglio spendere quei soldi per salire di categoria col processore e poi io tutto questo rumore non l'ho sentito anzi);- le performance video dipendono fondamentalmente dalla gpu integrata (in questo caso una HD 8470 D da 800 Mhz e 192 core Radeon), ma non dimenticate che la memoria "video" viene pescata dalla RAM del sistema; per cui fate sì di installare le migliori ram possibili che vi possiate permettere ( sicuramente cercate di arrivare a ram ddr3 da 1866 Mhz che è la frequenza massima gestibile da questo processore).- se non avete particolari esigenze di archiviazione, consiglio di comprare un SSD dal costo contenuto (120 gb se uso principale sistema operativo + office; 240 gb se volete aggiungere anche qualche altro programma): le prestazioni aumentano sensibilmente.Conclusioni:Rende più del prezzo che vale. Adatto ad un uso ordinario e con qualche soddisfazione nel gaming non spinto.Se si cercano alte prestazioni bisogna andare su altri prodotti ed aprire il portafoglio (non si può di certo dare la colpa ad un processore economico di non fare quello che non si propone di fare).Spedizione Amazon nei tempi ma imballaggio deludente: nel caso specificio un ssd ed il processore messi nello stesso cartone utilizzato per i libri. Scatola della cpu leggermente bagnata e piegata. Consiglio di acquistare articoli voluminosi assieme così da avere il classico pacco.

Lo tengo en una placa ASRock FM2A88M-HD+ con 4 GB DDRAM3 Kingston Hyperx Fury a 1600 Mhz, con Windows 8.1 64 bits y va bastante bien, al menos para ofimática y navegar por Internet, que es lo que suelo hacer, es una manera de tener un Pc de bajo coste con un rendimiento más que decente, además te ahorras tener que montar una tarjeta gráfica, puesto que la que lleva incorporada es mas que decente.Un detalle importante a tener en cuenta, al menos a mi así me pasó, es a la hora de montar el disipador, puesto que yo le he dejado el que venía con el procesador, pues es que viene con la pasta térmica ya aplicada. Yo lo monté así y se me calentaba un montón, no sé si la pasta que traía era de pésima calidad o qué, el caso que tuve que volver a desmontar, limpiar el disipador y aplicar pasta térmica medio decente, ahora no se calienta, lo he monitorizado varias veces y no sube de 35 º C aproximadamente (si vas a darle mucha caña con juegos y eso suelen recomendar un disipador más potente), pero para un uso normalito no está mal el disipador y ventilador que trae.El ventilador es silencioso y controlado automaticamente por la placa base, lo dicho, que si no le vas a dar mucha caña, no hace falta comprar otro.

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