• AMD E-350 vs. AMD E-450?
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I'm picking out a budget laptop for a friend, and don't really know anything about AMD processors. Could someone please shed some light on these?
They're APUs, or accelerated processing units. The concept behind them is that an on-chip graphics processor will outperform whatever onboard video is shipped with the motherboard. If you want a budget laptop that can run games, look at the AMD A-series. Most notably, a laptop with the A6-3400M - it's a good chip that overclocks well and even on stock settings can run Skyrim on medium-high settings. The E-series is a waste of time.
E-series is for web browsing and that's it. I made a computer with the e-350 for my computer illiterate parents, works great.
It can run video and browse the web. Don't expect any more.
They run incredibly cool though.
They are pretty good my Asus laptop has an APU runs newer games pretty well defiantly a boost over the intel HD 2/3000
[QUOTE=Chubbs;35247555]They run incredibly cool though.[/QUOTE] Well you can get an i3 second gen laptop that will actually remain relevant I have a Centrino Duo (or first generation Core Duo Mobile) 1.67GHz dual core processor in my laptop. My laptop is 4 years old. This Core Duo processor outperforms an E-450 in every aspect except for graphics.
I have a E-350, I use it as a media center. It ran Starcraft II horribly at the lowest settings, but I knew I wasn't going to use it for games when I bought it. As a media center, it is excellent. Applications are snappy, XBMC responds well, videos play nicely. Some occasional problems with Flash but it sucks massive cocks so who gives a shit. No idea about the 450. Probably runs flash better if it has a slight clock increase.
The 450 one I was looking at comes with a radion hd 6xxx card, I can't remember the specifics. Would it still use the 450 as a gpu when it comes with a better one?
[QUOTE=Smrtz;35251007]The 450 one I was looking at comes with a radion hd 6xxx card, I can't remember the specifics. Would it still use the 450 as a gpu when it comes with a better one?[/QUOTE] Probably not but I'm not sure exactly how the architecture works.
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