New build is a hunk of junk, or is it...

[Darren Hagford]

So I have been out of the PC building game for a long time but my step brother who knows nothing about computers asked me to make him a box. All the guy wants is a PC to watch some youtube videos in his shop so I told him we can go super cheap. he went on line and picked up

AMD A6-7400K
Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2
Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB 1333MHz DDR3
2 Raid 0 500 Gig Hdd's

I loaded up windows 10 home 64 bit, installed the latest MB chipset drivers and flash-java then went to youtube and tried to watch a 4k video (Samsung TV) and it was un watchable, looking at task manager the CPU was pegged. So then I thought "Maybe this set up just cannot handle 4k" so I went to 1080 on youtube and it still is bad... I can watch 1080 video on my 8 year old laptop so I don't know why this ting is so bad. maybe windows 10? my question is should this set up be able to handle 1080? or 4k? and what should I check out to fix the problem. the video seems to shudder and it is choppy.

 

[gokitty199]

buy a cheap gpu that can handle 4k resolution

 

[Darren Hagford]

buy a cheap gpu that can handle 4k resolution

That was my next step, I just thought maybe I could make this work but I will just run to micro center and get a $40 graphics card.

 

[Geekwad]

Do you have the latest AMD APU drivers installed?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+64

 

[Darren Hagford]

Do you have the latest AMD APU drivers installed?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+64

Just loaded them, maybe a small improvement but if I go full screen 1080 it is choppy. thanks for the idea

 

[Darren Hagford]

There is a GT 610 on sale for 35 bucks I think I am just going to pick that up tomorrow, that should handle 1080 youtube at least.

 

[Geekwad]

Do you have the latest AMD APU drivers installed?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+64

Just loaded them, maybe a small improvement but if I go full screen 1080 it is choppy. thanks for the idea

When you go into the 'Device Manager' (in the Control Panel) do you see any driver alerts? In general this isn't an idea setup, but it should be able to play 1080p video. I suspect a software or possibly firmware issue.

However, and to one of your original questions, because the APU uses RAM as its memory.....1333 is on the slow side. 2400Mhz would be way more ideal (two 4Gb sticks for dual channel). The work around as suggested is to get the video off of the APU by getting an inexpensive dedicated GPU. This will do fine:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/431416/Radeon_R5_230_2GB_DDR3_PCIe_21x16_Video_Card

I'd also consider getting an inexpensive SSD for the OS and main programs too. It will massively increase the responsiveness of the system:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/459460/CS1311_120GB_SATA_III_6Gb-s_25_Internal_Solid_State_Drive_%28SSD%29_-_SSD7CS1311-120-RB

then convert the two HDDs to RAID 1 for data security (pictures, vids, etc).

 

[Darren Hagford]

Do you have the latest AMD APU drivers installed?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+64

Just loaded them, maybe a small improvement but if I go full screen 1080 it is choppy. thanks for the idea

When you go into the 'Device Manager' (in the Control Panel) do you see any driver alerts? In general this isn't an idea setup, but it should be able to play 1080p video. I suspect a software or possibly firmware issue.

However, and to one of your original questions, because the APU uses RAM as its memory.....1333 is on the slow side. 2400Mhz would be way more ideal (two 4Gb sticks for dual channel). The work around as suggested is to get the video off of the APU by getting an inexpensive dedicated GPU. This will do fine:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/431416/Radeon_R5_230_2GB_DDR3_PCIe_21x16_Video_Card

I'd also consider getting an inexpensive SSD for the OS and main programs too. It will massively increase the responsiveness of the system:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/459460/CS1311_120GB_SATA_III_6Gb-s_25_Internal_Solid_State_Drive_%28SSD%29_-_SSD7CS1311-120-RB

then convert the two HDDs to RAID 1 for data security (pictures, vids, etc).

So I was driving by Best Buy and took a quick look at what they had, I picked up this guy

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/xfx-radeon-r5-220-core-edition-1gb-ddr3-pci-express-graphics-card-black/8386085.p?id=1219328762061&skuId=8386085

I am thinking another bad move... on the website it says "4K" but install it and load it up and it only goes to 1080 it seems to play youtube about the same as the APU. this is what I get for getting cheap junk.