May 3rd 2011
Best budget desktop computer PC configurations/components build, 2011 Q2 – April,May,June
Next quarter will finally see the effort paid off by AMD’s acquisition of ATI 5 years ago. What I mean is the most talked about Llano APU, the Fusion project that was hyped all the way back during AMD worst time, the first true CPU-GPU combination into a single chip for the desktop variant. Brazos platform with the Zacate/Ontario APU and the Fusion hub controller (Hudson) is cater for the Netbook/CULV segment which single handedly beats down Intel Atom platform. Intel Sandy Bridge offers great graphics performance by having infused both CPU and GPU together with the same chip, the graphics performance increased is unquestionable as the graphics processing unit is being fed with data at much higher bandwidth thanks to the resource sharing with the CPU. With AMD’s expertise in the graphics development, we can expect the Llano Desktop processor to be even faster as far as graphics performance is concern than what Intel is able to offer in Sandy Bridge. Llano could redefine this whole budget desktop PC segment and make some of the budget discreet card irrelevant and redundant. Anyway, this is best reserved for debate when Llano is available to the mass. If you are looking for a budget desktop right now, Llano is not the option at least for these 3 months as it wasn’t available. How about Sandy Bridge? Although it is available right now, but I recommend something more on the budget side. Read on. Continue Reading »


