Day one, Leo booted up Windows 7. The A4’s two cores chugged to life. Loading the OS took 47 seconds. Leo didn't complain; his last computer was a netbook with an Intel Atom. To him, the A4 felt like a rocketship.
Leo moved his command center. The A4’s two Bulldozer cores—which were really one module with two integer clusters sharing a floating-point unit—grunted. The floating-point unit was the bottleneck. Every time a zergling rush happened, the chip’s logic units clogged up like a drain full of coffee grounds.
At the heart of the A4-3330MX lies a dual-core CPU based on the "Husky" micro-architecture, an evolution of the K10 architecture that served AMD well during the Athlon II era. Operating at a base clock speed of 2.2 GHz, with the ability to boost up to 2.6 GHz via AMD Turbo Core technology, the processor was not designed for heavy lifting. In an era where quad-core chips were becoming the standard for performance enthusiasts, the dual-core A4-3330MX was strictly an entry-level component.
The AMD A4-3330M APU with Radeon HD Graphics is suitable for: