Trinity APUs good enough for Footage Capture and Rendering?

[warcraft7]

This would be an extreme budget PC basically so....would the new APUs from AMD be powerful enough to capture footage from games like dota 2, starcraft 2 and newer games? thats basically all i need a new PC for, i dont need it to run at 120 fps on ultra

Mean like the A-10

 

[Ghan]

It would be a stretch at best, assuming you're looking to play the game at the same time you are capturing it. I stream League of Legends, and it taxes my i7 920 around 80% usage to do 1080p. If you were doing something lower than 720p, it might work, but you'd likely have to have really low settings.

The fastest Trinity APU can't really even play newer titles on the higher settings, let alone do video capture along with it. You can check out a couple of good Trinity reviews here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6347/amd-a10-5800k-a8-5600k-review-trinity-on-the-desktop-part-2
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10-5800k-a8-5600k-a6-5400k,3224.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/trinity-gaming-performance,3304.html

 

[warcraft7]

Ive read in a few places that it runs at about as fast as an i5, and i could always get a video card later for crossfire, i think it would be my best bet considering my situation...i had 400 saved but thats down to 140...curse you life.

And its also really RAM dependent isn't it?

Like if i can record at about 30 FPS on Low graphic settings im all set my monitor is 1600x900, but ive found running at 1280x720(Whichever it is) basically doubles the fps with my current laptop

Seems to have some good transcoding capabilities...Are there any future plans for the FM2 socket? or news...at all?

 

[Ghan]

> Ive read in a few places that it runs at about as fast as an i5

The graphics performance is better than i5's integrated graphics, but the processing performance (assuming a second or third gen i5) is much slower.

> And its also really RAM dependent isn't it?

RAM speed does have a pretty big effect on Trinity's performance, yes. I would get the highest speed RAM possible for the motherboard.

> Are there any future plans for the FM2 socket? or news...at all?

I'm really not sure - I know that AMD is planning to iterate further on this platform, but I haven't heard where their APU stuff is heading.

 

[warcraft7]

ya, from the reviews and stuff i've seen the A-10 looks to be a bit better than an i3 in some places, and just below an i5....hmmm

The multi-threading is fairly good and i think thats what will help the most with capture footage as well.

I'm sure they'll do something with it, but it would probably come out in like another year, if i have money by then i might get it.

1886, 8GBs of RAM looks like itll be good for helping the video part out.

It would be able to run Dota 2 at least by itself right?

 

[Ghan]

I think such a build would have no problem playing Dota 2 on reasonably high settings. Not so sure about streaming it, though.

 

[warcraft7]

I think such a build would have no problem playing Dota 2 on reasonably high settings. Not so sure about streaming it, though.

Ya...i have no need for streaming, i use bandicam atm to capture footage and it works fairly well, i figure a CPU with twice the power of my current one and a lot better video would be able to handle it much better

 

[warcraft7]

OK heres my current parts list...think it'll do?

Haves:
HAF 912 Coolmaster Case with 1 200mm fan on the top and fully loaded with 4 120mm fans

3TB External Hard drive, which i will tear open and use that hard drive unless i get the money for an SSD before hand...in which case it will be my secondary drive...

Media Reader/DvD Drive.

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