Bottle Necking and Cooling

johnsmith12 · Apr 22, 2013

Which component will bottle neck the pc and should I invest in any extra cooling outside of what is offered standard?

Processor
AMD A10-5800K 3.80 GHz Quad-Core APU w/ Integrated Radeon HD 7660D

Motherboard
ASRock FM2A55M-DGS A55 Chipset DDR3 Socket FM2 mATX w/ XFast USB+LAN+RAM, 5.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB2.0, SATA2 RAID, 1 Gen2 PCIe X16, 1 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI

Memory
8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory

Graphics Card
AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card

Power Supply
600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready

Hard Drive
1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

ilysaml · Apr 22, 2013

Why A10-5800K with HD 7850? Why APU?
What's the make of the PSU?
What's the purpose of this build?

johnsmith12 · Apr 22, 2013

ilysaml :

APU because the core pc is relatively inexpensive. I figure I can fill it full of decent parts and get a reliable gaming pc for a good price. The A10-5800k is the best processor for this model. I can upgrade graphics card later, but not the processor.
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/AMD_Fusion_APU_Configurator/

PSU is corsair

Mid-range gaming.

ryanrich83 · Apr 22, 2013

HDD is the easy answer for the bottleneck for overall system use. For gaming though, you won't notice much of a difference.

ilysaml · Apr 22, 2013

You can build your own PC based on FX 8350 and a decent 990FX chipset paired with HD 7850. But there's no problem with your current selection. You can get a 1866 MHz RAM, the extra speed doesn't benefit too much.

das_stig · Apr 22, 2013

64/128GB SSD for OS and core apps and stick everthing else on a HDD, but not one of those green drives that are too slow.

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