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Benchmark Results: Skyrim

Six Socket FM2 Motherboards For AMD's Trinity APUs
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We keep turning to our test notes to check playability, and again find that every board plays the game smoothly from the APU's Radeon HD graphics core at 1600x900 and medium quality settings. Higher settings weren't smooth on any board, so we’re left to judge each based on non-gaming criteria.

A difference of 3 FPS does look fairly large when charted on a narrow performance scale, but we’re not concerned, since none of these resolutions are playable at Skyrim’s High quality preset. These averages become additional data for each board’s overall performance index.

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    swamprat , 26 November 2012 18:26
    Does the hybrid crossfire thingymajig work (and if so how well) on the desktop APUs? It could be an interesting addition to the discrete graphics 'conundrum' by keeping some of the graphics value of the APU
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    spare_flash , 28 November 2012 04:16
    Ha, I followed the link expecting to read an article about a motherboard that would hold 6 processors. I need new glasses.
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    Macheri , 31 March 2013 08:18
    Does is it really influence the performance? It's nice to have some more connectors but doesn't worth paying 60$ more for an expensive motherboard like these.