Review on 💻 AMD AD740KYBJABOX A6-7400K Dual-Core Processor 3.5GHz FM2+ Socket Radeon R5 Series by Leo Puente

This processor was purchased with the intention of replacing it with an upgrade fairly soon. I paired it with an MSI A88xm motherboard and 8GB Adata 1866MHz RAM. It works so well that an update will have to wait. The stock fan is very quiet and keeps the chip cool to a point where the motherboard has only used the case fan a handful of times for additional cooling. When I monitored the APU, it was usually in the low 50s Celsius (well below any danger zone). It plays all the games my son and I are interested in at a very playable frame rate, thanks to using RAM at the maximum speed recommended by the APU. He plays very well in Minecraft, Skyrim, Just Cause2, Portal2, Arma2 and many more. Is that a game screamer? No, but like I said, it plays all those decent resolution games very well. It's only a dual-core processor, but most games, especially games, currently only use 1 or 2 cores anyway. If you always have a large number of windows open with active content in all of them, a processor with 4 or more cores will probably perform better. smoothly, but we don't leave anything running in the background that could slow down performance. That's why I used it as an entry-level APU, as the 2 processor cores it packs are more than enough to replace an outdated system and do what we're currently asking of it. Haven't tried overclocking it yet, but maybe someday. There was no need to play with it at the moment. My only advice is that when setting up your system, be sure to contact AMD and update your drivers (we've gone from potentially disappointing performance to extremely satisfied performance). In general we are very satisfied with it.