AMD's A8 CPUs...Actually Awful?
Hello everyone and welcome back to a heavily requested Budget Builds Episode, where today we're finally going to do it...We are actually going to find out if the AMD A8 is really as awful as people make it out to be in 2026...So I've gone ahead and got one that's pretty much bang in the middle performance wise, and it's about time we tried to see just how good or bad this thing really is. So I've got it all for you, the latest and greatest games, Windows XP, even pushing the APU part of it as far as itll go...Oh and you cant forget AMD Overdrive Overclocking, the king of software if you want to run it at 5Ghz of 15 Seconds before it catches fire...All at the push of a button. It's been a lot of work, but please do Enjoy!
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Intro - 0:00:00
My AMD A8 - 0:0:20
The Setup - 0:01:06
Some Initial Thoughts - 0:03:30
Driver Time (Theyre Broken...Thanks AMD) - 0:04:25
Pricing - 0:05:46
Driver Woes Continue - 0:06:22
FINALLY Drivers are Working! - 0:08:00
Trying to run a Benchmark - 0:10:00
It Launches GTA 5 Atleast - 0:10:46
Using AMD Overdrive to cook the CPU - 0:11:56
Oh yea that's bad - 0:15:15
I fixed it (manually) - 0:16:05
Adding a proper GPU - 0:18:29
What was this AMD A8? - 0:19:10
The Specs (CPU and iGPU) - 0:20:59
Overclocking Results & Comparison to other chips...Oh yea its bad - 0:22:50
General Usage, CPU Profile, and Plans to testing - 0:26:03
The (CPU) Benchmarks - 0:28:25
GTA V Enhanced & GTA O Enhanced - 0:28:26
GTA V Legacy & GTA O Legacy - 0:29:50
Counter Strike 2 & Counter Strike:GO - 0:31:08
Arc Raiders...haha no - 0:32:49
Cyberpunk 2077 - 0:33:31
PUBG - 0:34:38
M&B Bannerlord - 0:35:52
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 0:36:54
Kerbal Space Program - 0:37:51
Fallout 4 Anniversary - 0:38:52
BeamNG - 0:40:58
Can it run Crysis (Remastered) - 0:42:21
Overall Performance, Crashes, Quirks, Just not great is it... - 0:43:38
But this thing has an iGPU - 0:45:48
iGPU testing (HD7560D) Sims 4, Black Mesa, Skyrim, GTA V, Rimworld, Counter Strike 2 - 0:47:05
Actually that part of it is good... - 0:54:03
Can it install Windows XP - 0:55:04
AMD actually supported XP on here till 2014?!?! - 0:59:34
Okay...So maybe it is good at something - 1:02:18
Can it run a CRT? - 1:03:22
Driver Side Enhancements - 1:04:09
Windows XP & CRT Testing (Forced EQAA & AF, Gaming) - 1:05:34
Power Consumption & Thermals, x264 Encoding, etc... - 1:12:58
So is AMDs A8 actually awful? - 1:14:43
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