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so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of a kind of package I've never really received before this is from AMD and it is a fpp sample program kit nothing on the outside of the package besides that label on the front so let's go ahead and get it opened up so here we see some information about AMD is lando or their fusion AP use we have the AMD a four a six and eight eight so these are all ap use that means they have a CPU and a GPU component on the same package of varying performance levels keep opening it up this is kind of a throwback color reminds me of the Athlon 64 that was the orange packaging color that they used for that particular processor in the AMD logo so first let's see what AMD has to say for themselves a discreet graphics experience without the cost of an additional component plus support for DirectX 11 optimizations this is a much bigger deal than you think because sure a low-end discrete graphics card isn't going to run all the latest DirectX 11 games at high details and 2560 by 1600 resolution but you do get support for things like direct compute where your GPU on the CPU can actually assist it with certain functionality all right dual graphics boosts visual performance up to 75% so what's dual graphics dual graphics is similar to what we used to call hybrid crossfire where the chipset had a GPU on it and then that could work with and a standalone PCIe graphics card so in this case some of the lower end AMD graphics cards are actually capable of working in what they call now dual graphics mode to improve the performance in DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 titles by using them together next we have multi-core processing with up to four high performance course plus AMD turbo core technology for optimized performance where it's needed most so multi-core processing what that means is we've got up to four CPU cores on here that are each a slightly more efficient than an older Athlon x2 or Apple on 2x4 sorry Athlon 2x4 so the older Athlon course these a four a six and eight cores are slightly more efficient especially the a8 because they do have the best onboard graphics as well as a little bit more cache or certain other higher-end features compared to the other ones so what else we got in here we have an AMD mug that says this is charming I heart APU all right we've got a shirt which is probably a large oh it's an extra-large so obviously it's not gonna fit me but it has some kind of explosion on it I am the first ok and then we have these paper let's see yep saying what's in here there's an s2 heatsink no we don't want to look at this necessarily and then let's see if there's anything else in here that might be interesting that's pretty much it there's a copy of of this as well and then we also have a motherboard inside so why don't we make this the unboxing for the a8 APU as well I'm gonna do this motherboard separately this is a socket fm1 motherboard to go with a socket fm1 APU now FM one is different from the a m2 m3 family of processor sockets so you do need a new motherboard in order to take advantage of an APU so let's go ahead and see what AMD has to say for themselves on the outside of the CPU box you can combine it with DirectX 11 graphic cards these 164 50 65 70 as well as the 66 70 hey on the back we see the usual spiel okay unrivaled DirectX 11 support revolutionary APU harnesses the power of unrivaled discrete level AMD Radeon HD graphics small energy efficient design yes that's one of the things that's actually really cool about the APU design is that the idle power consumption compared to its closest competitor from the blue side is actually significantly better due to the fact that they've taken away so many components by building the graphics chip right on to the CPU at a very highly integrated level so let's have a look at the heatsink and I think you guys are going to be quite surprised to see the heatsink for this new AMD socket there you have it it looks just like a heatsink for any other AMD socket from like the last six years or so going all the way back to socket 754 where you've got the two clips on either side okay you got some fins you got a copper slug what that means is that you can actually use your old heatsink solution as long as it's rated for a TV P up to 100 watts remember these do have a graphics chip on them as well so they kicked out a little bit more heat than a standalone CPU would so that's why the higher TDP even though the overall system power consumption will still be very very low so you can use any properly rated heatsink that was compatible with like pretty much realistically if you still own it and it's still high performance you can use it on your APU very cool oh it has a PWM fan in case you guys were wondering so that's a four pin fan and next we have some kind of paper documentation showing different sockets okay I haven't seen a socket fm1 yet but I will soon so I'll be telling you guys all about that and my motherboard unboxings I'm gonna do a few FM one motherboards and there it is there is the eight 3800 series APU so it looks pretty much like any other AMD chip from the last little while ooh the pin pattern though that is a noticeably different and you can see actually oh cool look at that so it has a dot here marking it it has the usual triangle marking this one and then it has a dot on the other side and no dot here so my guess is that that's going to be a lot to do with making sure it's oriented correctly in the motherboard socket last but not least we have an AMD vision sticker which you can put on your case so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the a the first APU don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos