Radeon HD 6550D
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Blue_Centurion,
Posted on: 2011-10-20 11:46 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
A lot better than one with an HD 4200.
The AMD A8-3850 is essentially a quad core Athlon II (including tweaks like a bigger L2 cache) with a built in HD 5570. However due to the fact the GPU shares system memory and has a lower clock speed than the HD 5570, it's performance isn't as good.
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Sorry, I don't have any personal experience with this CPU/GPU combo but it would be the PC I would have recommended to my parents if it was available 3-4 months ago when they got their new system.
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That chip is helped by faster memory unlike the intel where memory speed is negligible.
Sadly, if you are buying this from a brick and mortar store it will most likely have the slowest DDR3 RAM they can stick in there. I suspect they are sticking in 1333 memory vs say 1866.
Having seen the difference between the athlon II vs Phenom II, the lack of L3 cache really hurts zoning speeds with the athlon II. Having swapped an Athlon II 630 to a Phenom II 965 made trials go from laggy to fairly smooth and zoning times went from 20-25 seconds to 10-12. All I did was change my CPU...
I do agree its better than the integrated graphics 4200 system, but this system won't be playing CoH in Maxed out Ultra mode. It will be low UM settings with ok to low framerates or mid levels with lots of lag.
H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD
How would this rig do with City of X?
AMD Quad-Core A8-3850 Accelerated Processor with Radeon HD 6550D processor-integrated Graphics
AMD® A75 Chipset
16GB DDR3 Memory (4 slots, 32GB max)
2TB SATA II Hard Drive
22X DVD±R/RW
Front Panel 19-in-1 digital multimedia card reader
Radeon HD 6550D processor-integrated Graphics with dual monitor capability