[citation][nom]cRACKmONKEY421[/nom]People really buy APUs for gaming? I mean I know that's the point, but really? You're definately not playing high end games at high resolutions. Just as in the past, maybe a sub $500 gaming computer is better off with AMD parts, but a $500 gaming computer is still a sub-par gaming computer even if you made the very best use of your money. People using i5 2500K for gaming and not adding in an extra graphics card are obviously just wasting their money. Not very useful to compare gaming performance without adding a video card, because any serious gamer adds a video card. And as soon as you add the same video card to both, the i5 still blows away anything AMD has. If the on-chip video were the only option, then and only then would AMD chips look more appealing. That's why A10 is compared to i3 instead of i5. The i5 people usually buy additional graphics cards.[/citation]
An i5 without a graphics card is almost twice as expensive as an A10-5800K and A10-5700. An i5 with a discrete card worth having to compare with it (nothing less than a Radeon 7850 IMO) is already $300 more expensive than these A10s in CPU and graphics and would probably be paired with a more expensive motherboard (let's throw in another $40-80 for that) and a more powerful and probably more expensive PSU (I'd just throw another $15-25 in for that). You'd probably also want a better case, so how about another $10-25 there, maybe more for people who want extravagant cases. At the end of the day, it might be around twice as expensive as an A10 build.
One thing that people are forgetting here is not only does Trinity provide an open door to high-value cheap gaming, but it provides a door with a good upgrade path. Once you want more performance than say an A10 and a Radeon 6670 can deliver, you sell the 6670 to get a better graphics card such as a 7850 or an equivalent to it from a future generation at a slight *discount*. You also disable the IGP of the A10 and use the huge thermal headroom increase for some serious overclocking. It wouldn't beat a current i5, but it can easily beat a current i3 by a great margin. That simply isn't something that Intel offers.