Product Showcase - AMD Series APU Photo's

Product Showcase - AMD Kaveri Series APU

Here you can see the AMD Kaveri APU - the A10-7870K. Pretty much as big as any other AMD APU or Phenom or even Athlon II processors you may have seen. This one has a Northbridge and a GPU merged into it though. And it makes all the difference. We can also see the laser inscription on the APU. 

Desktop Kaveri based APU processors require socket FM2+.  Your old CPU cooler however remains compatible with FM2+. 

We'll focus on the A10-7870K APU for this review though. It runs at 3.9 Ghz and can turbo towards 4.1 GHz configured at a 95 Watts TDP.

For this review AMD submitted the ASUS motherboard with plenty of features. We use two 8GB DIMMs running 1866 MHz on our test setup. If you stick to the iGPU then you can make use of a HDMI, D-SUB, DVI port or Display Port connector.

As you can see this board comes with a full x16 PCIe 3.0 slot and even a trace on the motherboard to highlight the audio circuitry. As noted you get four SATA3 (6 Gbps) ports, USB 3.0 connectors rear ended as well as a Gigabit jack. Nice to see are the PS2 mouse/keyboard ports. The board comes with a very mature UEFI bios and the power consumption (if you use the integrated GPU) drops down to just 29 Watts. Pretty cool for a net-PC, file-server, NAS or HTPC alright. The staggering price for this motherboard is 59 EURO, with the APU at 99 EURO this is cheap as it gets guys.