Video Perspective: AMD A8-3850 vs Intel Core i3-2105 Gaming Comparison
Our collection of videos comparing the AMD A8-3850 Llano APU to the Sandy Bridge-based Core i3-2105 have been very...
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Better thread scheduling could really help Bulldozer
Windows and to an extent other OSes are now familiar with Intel's HyperThreading and tend to be able to schedule threads in an optimized manner, but what about the eight 'cores' in…
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Checking A8-3850 overclocking capability 7 times
Legit Reviews decide that they really wanted to be able to show the overclocking results you can expect from the AMD A8-3850, so they picked up eight of the chips to test…
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Llano on Linux, good but not good enough
Phoronix is still satisfying their curiosity about the performance of Llano under Linux. To that end they assembled an A8-3850 with Gigabyte's GA-A75M-UD2H motherboard, 2GB of DDR3 memory, and a 60GB OCZ…
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Overclocking Llano just makes sense, but the RAM not so much
Most reviewers made a financial decision when pairing RAM to review AMD's new Llano A8-3850 processor. Most chose 1333MHz DDR3, since when building a low cost PC most users are going to choose…
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Video Perspective: AMD Steady Video Technology on AMD A-Series APUs
In our continuing coverage of the AMD Llano-based A-Series of APUs we have another short video that discusses and evaluates the performance of AMD's Steady Video technology publicly released to the world with the…
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Llano cares about your DIMMs, the size, speed and number of them
Legit Reviews did a marathon testing run on Llano to see just how dependant is on the memory subsystem. They took a variety of 4GB DDR3 DIMMs, at 1333MHz, 1600MHz and…
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Overclockers Achieve Impressive Llano Overclocking Results, Come Close to 5GHz
In a feat of overclocking prowess, the crew over at Akiba have managed to push the AMD Llano A8-3850 to its limits to achieve a Super PI 32M score of 14…
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Video Perspective: AMD A-series APU Dual Graphics Technology Performance
Last week we posted a short video about the performance of AMD's Llano core A-series of APUs for gaming and the response was so positive that we have decided to...
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PC Perspective Podcast #161 – AMD Llano Desktop review, the Samsung Droid Charge, RevoDrive 3 X2 and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #161 - 7/07/2011 This week we talk about our AMD Llano Desktop review, the Samsung Droid Charge, RevoDrive 3 X2 and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes...
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Video Perspective: AMD A-series APU Overclocking and Gaming Performance
We have spent quite a bit of time with AMD's latest processor, the A-series of APUs previously known as Llano, but something we didn't cover in the initial review was...
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You seen the processor, now check out the socket FM1 motherboards
Along with the arrival of the A series of Llano processors comes socket FM1 motherboards and the AMD A75 FCH (Hudson D3) chipset. Legit Reviews focused on the ASUS F1A75-M Pro…
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Buy a cheap graphics card and get a free attached CPU, Llano’s mixed results
Long story short, the new AMD A8-3850 simply can't compete with Intel's SandyBridge processors as an x86 CPU but as an integrated GPU it is better than anything we or The Tech Report have…
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AMD A-Series Desktop Processors Set the APU Bar
AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced availability for the AMD Fusion A-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) A8-3850 and A6-3650 desktop processors. The AMD A8-3850 and A6-3650 desktop processors will enable a high- performance experience…
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AMD A8-3850 Llano Desktop Processor Review – Can AMD compete with Sandy Bridge?
Introduction Just a couple of weeks ago we took the cover off of AMD's Llano processor for the first time in the form of the Sabine platform: Llano's mobile derivative. In...
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