Watch This Before Buying an AMD A10-6800K | An Owner's Retrospective

The A10-6800K could have been fantastic, and it's aged well enough to become fantastic, but only time, overclocking and benchmarks can answer that for certain. Join me as I take a look back at one of AMD's most popular APUs of all time, the A10-6800K.

Tested CPUs:
- A10-6800K
- i3 3200
** Also paired with a R7 260X 2GB for some benchmarks.

Games Tested:
- Fortnite
- Rocket League
- Minecraft
- Trials Fusion
- Apex Legends
- GTA V
- Civilization VI

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CPU = Ryzen 5 3600
GPU = RX 6800
RAM = 32GB G.SKILL DDR4
CASE = NZXT H400i
CPU COOLER = DEEPCOOL CASTLE 240

[wesleyd.]

Its 2022 and im happily running an A10-6800k - ms-7778 (ver1) - 32gb ram - 500gbSSD and a xtx RX-480 all on air cooling (cpu slightly overclocked) while connected to a 60" 4k tv/monitor. I am blown away by this things performance. After newest win10 update and amd radeon updates i am getting 3800x2830 @ 60fps with medium/high quality settings in Fortnight (for my kid) and blender, fusion, cura, etc has never been smoother. I wont be upgrading this old pc for a while. Never thought it could be so nice.

[adamskyj]

I've being running this APU since 2013. It was my main PC till about 2015 but my granddaughter still uses. Initially, I upgraded it with a compatible AMD GPU as a second card, very clever - it link with the APU's integrated GPU via crossfire, it really did help it out. Then I stuck in a MSI 970GTX, still in the machine today. That really did boost it for games in 1080p. Never a days problem and great overclocker.

[joannaatkins]

Nice! I'm glad you had such a good time overclocking, that's a positive thing for nerds like me who want to muck about and extract a bit of performance

[amightygrizzly]

I had an A10-6700 once before in the ASUS Essentio lineup of prebuilts one time. I personally didn't enjoy it. Strangely enough, the APU's integrated graphics solution was so bad that it couldn't run even 720p or 480p videoplayback on YouTube. It had the all the drivers and multiple operating systems in different configurations like Linux to the lightest versions of Windows to be custom made for it as a tester. It just couldn't do regular videoplayback.

Now, I definitely believe the APU, A10-6800k, you used was absolutely fine and had no problems. But my past experiences with AMD was...well...not so good. I've built systems now with AMD Ryzen which is the great. But, my experiences with old AMD is not great. I'm happy to hear that you had a good experience though. 😊

[Minitrucker]

I have an AMD A8 unlocked Black Edition processor with a Nvidia GT 740 and 16 gigs of RAM in my other computer, which pushed me to stay away from Intel and go AMD whenever I decided to get a new computer. I now have a AMD Ryzen 7 8 core, 16 thread CPU in my current laptop which I absolutely love.

[mazharkhatri]

Should I buy used desktop AMD A10 7890k | GTX 1050 2gb | 16gb Ram | 500gb ssd, 4tb HDD ? For playing fortnight and others games like that?
Your suggestion would be appreciated ❤️

[janwitkowsky]

I'd argue, taht if one were to go ultra cheap APU starter build and the Athlon 200ge isn't available...
An a320 board with an A8-9600 APU.
Or a b350/450 board for that matter, if you can get it for cheap.

It's still current gen socket.
Supports DDR4.
There's an actual upgrade path still, with the Ryzen series.
Heck even Ryzen APU in a couple of years, if the budget is litterally on a shoestring, so that you have to wait another 3-5 years before an R3-2200G/R5-2400G is within your price range.

[rashkavar]

It's weird seeing the venerable CPU in the computer I built in 2014 getting an analysis in 2021... I'm doing analysis now to see what the path forward for this old computer is once I manage to scrape together the funds for a new gaming PC. Mostly trying to get a handle on how it runs graphically, as the equally archaic graphics card in it has apparently lost one of its fans.

[Obie]

Hey RMD Tech, I used to own the A10 5800x but returned it for a Intel ivy 3570k. Later on i revised and built on the Godarvi A10 7860k for a media Center. I ended up stuffing it with a GT 1030. After 6+ years it's been going strong and stable at 4.2ghz/2133mhz ram. Bumping up the FSB to 2000 and fast Crucial MX 500 SSD boot keeps it in serviceability hunt. What amazes me about the A88 platform/A10 is how stable and reliable it still is. (knock on wood) Thanks for the video! Cheers!

[TechTested]

Great video. I am really blown away by the performance bump with the higher RAM.

[matthewday]

The IGP seems to be way more powerful than the onboard graphics of AM3/AM3+ boards, but then with a GPU, how would they compare as a budget solution

[slurpeedurp]

I'm pairing my asus f2a55-m le with the a10-6800k is that alright? I also have the asus gtx 550 ti with 8gbs ram in my pc as well. This will be my gaming rig until I can afford to pay $1100 for my future pc lol

[BeefLettuceAndPotato]

Even though now a days i have a real rig (managed to snag the 5700xt before GPUs disappeared 😅)..
I'll never forget or stop loving APUs. They let me build a cheap Lil PC for college back in 2012... It could handle Rome total war and world of tanks like a champ 🤣

[Anlushac]

I still own my A10-6800K. I built the best no video card system I could build about August 2013. I still have the APU. I think it's now in it's 3rd motherboard. It going in a system I'm building for a friend for light gaming with 16gb ram and a retired rx 56 I have sitting around.

[sebastianchelminiak]

Great video. However, you had mentioned that you and your other Tech buddy figured out on how to gain a HUGE boost and Overclock this particular CPU to pretty well it's maximum. You stated to checkout in the details for a URL to another webpage which explains how the two of you accomplished this? However, there is nothing in the details?

[peterconnell]

It seems a silly choice when it was improved on so much by its (also old ) successor - the FM2+ a10 7000 series.

It went from a GPU gimping pcie2 to pcie3 eg.

[brymstoner]

like many of the comments here, my a10-6800k is a trusty workhorse that i still use in my main to this day. i'm an apu fan though. have 5 more; 4 x 5350's and a gx-420gl soc. using them all as linux servers. all 6 machines combined draw less than 500w consistently. gotta love apu's!

[OfWodensFolk]

Picked up one of these with 8GB DDR3 1600, ASUS A55BM-E motherboard, 300w PSU 80+ rated and generic case for £27. Just something to mess about with and going to throw a cheap XFX R7 260X 2GB into it.

[HardWhereHero]

Scrounging through the bins at goodwill and found this cpu attached to a ASUS F2A85-M motherboard and 32GB of ram, I also found a gtx 980 FE in the box. Paid less than $60 for both. The mobo even had the i/o with it! Color me impressed! My kiddo asked if it was for his build and I just laughed and told him "Your not patient enough for this CPU" Kids now days expect stuff to load the moment they click / press. I cant imagine how many heads would roll if we suddenly had to go back to 56k dialup. AMAZING VALUE FOR A CPU THAT RUNS FORKNIFE AND GTA 5!!! This chip has held its own in the last few years, the damn thing still goes for $30 on the fleabay and the i3 3220 is like 3 to 4 bucks. People shoot for this cpu to make mini gaming builds and HTPC's. it stomps intel to death at GPU performance. No matter all the jokes we made in the past, I used to call them "A pee ewwww's" I am glad AMD stuck with it and kept workin on their igpu's

[retrotechpinas]

You have done an excellent job explaining the cpu's architecture in general than most "renowned" techtubers I know who simply resort to the core count lawsuit which probably benefited less than 1% of the FX users and leaving it at that.