APU vs CPU vs GPU. Which One Is Best For Gaming?

Ever wondered what the advantages of one was over the other - let's find out.

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RicohLA

Jul 22, 2021 at 8:20 am

Cough*cough* say that to Steam Deck
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Roger

Dec 11, 2020 at 10:09 pm

Hi Shaun, in the article you say, “ All Ryzen based CPUs are and will be an AM4 socket, and all past, current, and future chipsets will be compatible.”
I have a Lenovo Ideacentre, Ryzen 5 2400G, AM4 socket, AMD B300 chipset.
I asked Lenovo support if I could upgrade to a Ryzen 7 1700 AM4 socket, they said they were not compatible.
Could the support person have missed something, maybe a bios update?
Anybody have any ideas. Thanks
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Alex

Apr 21, 2019 at 4:45 am

What are the risks of increasing the frame buffer size without taking anything else into consideratio? My laptop has an integrated graphics Vega 10 and it is set to 256 MB video memory but I don’t want to just go into the bios and change the frame buffer to a higher number when I really don’t know what I’m doing.
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Corbin

Jan 28, 2019 at 3:04 pm

Even though APUs seem very useful, they are not. When they break, they break. Either you buy a new CPU, and a GPU, or buy a new APU, which, due to their new construction and short life span, and lack of understanding of them, don’t last very long.
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- Corbin
  
  Nov 19, 2019 at 3:06 am
  
  Dude we literally have the same name, and apparently same hobby in PC building
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- KaS23
  
  Dec 31, 2019 at 4:42 pm
  
  Hey bruv. So how long would you anticipate a Ryzen 5 3400G would last, because it is all I can afford at the moment, coupled with the ASRock X570 Steel Legend moboand some 16GB (3600) RAM.
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- Andrew
  
  Mar 23, 2020 at 4:06 pm
  
  I’ve been building PCs for over 30 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had a CPU actually fail. Motherboards, graphics cards, drives…yes. CPUs? Once. But I’ve rarely OC’ed and stay away from high TDP chips.
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