AMD A8-3850

Pros: Inexpensive, works for me, good at running multiple graphics intensive programs.

Cons: Haven't found one in a laptop yet.

Summary: Have been using an A8-3850, also on F1A74-V Pro motherboard with HD 6670 graphics card, for a little over a month now. Original built it as an inexpensive computer to use with the HDTV in my wife's craft room, but after playing with it for awhile I decided to donated the i3 on my desk to the craft room, keeping the A8-3850 as my home office desktop. Benchmarks aside, for my day to day use AMD hit this one out of the ballpark. I use two monitors a 24" Asus and 42" 240Hz HDTV often running Auto Cad, Solid Works, Word, Excel, Access, Photo shop and/or Corel Draw, while streaming music or a movie in a small window. Sure the differences in motherboard/ram and cooling have allot to do with it too and I'll have to see how it holds up over time, but for now the A8-3850 has stomped the i3 I was using in the home office and if truth be told is not noticeably slower or less reliable than the hideously expensive so called "graphics workstation" station I use when I'm forced to actually drive to the office.