We would like to thank the following companies for supplying and supporting us with our test system hardware and equipment: Intel, ASUS, MSI, Western Digital, MemoRight and Corsair.

We've got a host of CPUs in our graphs here today.

We won't go into too much detail as everything is really covered in the above image, but alongside the new A10-5800K and FX-8350 chips we've also got the older FX-8150 from AMD and even older Phenom II X6 1100T. These chips are used on the GIGABYTE FM2A85X-UP4 and GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 respectively.

On the Intel side of things we've got the older Core i5 2500k alongside the newer Core i5 3570k which both sit on an ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard. As usual when it comes to testing CPUs and APUs we're using a slightly different benchmark line up when compared to our motherboard testing.

Let's get started!