AD9700AGABBOX 7th Generation A10-9700 Quad-Core Processor with Radeon R7 Graphics

Built my own computer about 7 years ago and this CPU is still holding up great. Though I'll need a newer one if I want to support windows 11, so keep that in mind

chose for a budget build for the middle boy's room. the processor runs really well and everything is pretty much instant. it has a crucial ssd and 2400mhz ddr4 memory. after I set it up I tried Warface and PUBG which set themselves to low settings but play just fine. it should keep him happy and I got a kick out of building another computer. always been an AMD fan.

I just built a new computer system based around this this processor. The A10 9700 seems fast and responsive, and the processing seems great. The reason for the 4 star rating is the video graphics. I knew going into this that these weren't going to compete with the Ryzen/Vega graphics, but I was hoping for just a bit more. It runs most of my games, though I noticed some lag in movement. Streaming video seems to work just fine. If you are looking for a budget processor to get through your day to day chores, this will blow you away. If you are looking to improve your gaming, spend more and get a Ryzen.

I bought this initially for a custom arcade machine project my employer roped me into. I purchased this processor along with PSD48G2133K 8GB DDR4 and ASROCK AB320M motherboard but it just would not post. A Ryzen 5 1600 would post, but no memory/motherboard combo I had at the time would allow this thing to post so I ended up shelving this CPU and then using a Ryzen 5 2200G which worked. I've been doing this for a while so I figured it was just some platform incompatibility because I've never encountered an AMD product that was DOA. Fast forward to today, and I am upcycling a Lenovo M715S with an A6-9500 and, finally, have a use for this A10-9700! Long story short, it works like you'd expect a later generation A series APU to perform -- that is to say, it's not competitive with much else out there but the value proposition (at the time) was off the charts for productivity use.

My experience with this processor may not be typical, but here was my experience with it. Using an Asrock B350M Pro4 motherboard, a Thermaltake 600W PSU, 8GB of DDR4 G-Skill RAM and this processor, I very recently did a new PC build. I've done PC builds for years for myself and for my business. (Computer Repair) After assembly and power up, I went into the BIOS to make sure the RAM counted up and to see what the initial processor temperature was in the Hardware Monitoring section of the BIOS (UEFI). I was seeing idle temps between 40 and 50 deg Celsius. It should be noted that I used Artic Silver thermal paste and the provided heat-sink and fan assembly, as I've had pretty good luck with the last three AMD A8-9600 builds using the factory provided heat-sink/fan. I'm and old school kind guy and do not do any overclocking on processors or RAM as a rule, I like to make things last, especially for customers. (Unless they request overclocking). Under Windows 10 64 bit, I loaded all the base drivers for the Asrock board and the latest video driver for this APU. As soon as the video driver was finished installing, the system crashed with a BSOD. I removed the ATI driver and restarted the system using the Microsoft Basic Adapter driver. No blue screens, nothing. But of course the worst graphics you have ever seen lol. So I ran the AMD Clean Install utility that flushes out any and all of the left over ATI video drivers and tried the previous driver release for this APU. The drivers installed and I restarted the system, things were looking good for about 5 minutes until BOOM, complete restart with no BSOD. When running diagnostic applications I kept coming up with atikmdag.sys as the culprit. If you look that up that is the part of the ATI Radeon driver package. Never could get this APU to run with any older drivers or the most current driver. The only happiness I got out of this processor was getting rid of it.

Being it is on the old style AMD mount I put a huge fan on the chip which it really does need to stay cool and ripping along. Note: the old Phenom 4 was good, this is magnitudes better with a mere 16GB of RAM it can do Blender and Python without hesitation. I do find some latency is present - will have to go in and check my settings in the BIOS. Not the chip's fault - excellent for graphics by the way!

Let start by saying that I have been using AMD processors since the K-6, and have always found them flawless. When AMD launched the A series processor with integrated video, I tried them and I like them. The video performance was good for everything, except high end gaming. But I don't game. This processor's video is just not up to the task of running streaming video. For the first time since switching to AMD A series, I had to install a video card. Nothing special, just a Gigabyte, 2gb, HDMI card, (less than 100 dollars). I read the reviews, and I assumed that the problems were with gaming, not video playback I was wrong.

I needed to upgrade an older PC but wanted to keep the existing case, Power Supply and HDD Married these three together and it was flawless: - AMD AD9700AGABBOX 7th Generation A10-9700 Quad-Core Processor - GIGABYTE GA-A320M-S2H - Corsair CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz Linux is amazing booting from a previous Mint 19.3 installation and recognizing all of the new harware without any issues.