AMD A8-6600k and GTX 760. Good or not?
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Roland Of Gilead
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SpetZs :
Next month, i'll buy a PC. My friends and some people in the web, told that for the GTX 760, the best CPU choice is the A8-6600K.
What do you think?
I'm from Brazil, and this is my first post! Sorry if i write something wrong
What do you think?
I'm from Brazil, and this is my first post! Sorry if i write something wrong
Well, your friends aren't exactly correct there. The ' best choice'.....no definitely not. It's not a great choice. there are much better gaming chips out there, that would compliment a GTX 760 much better. It really depends on your budget.
The A8 will be a decent midrange gaming CPU, nothing special though.
For AMD the best chip is the FX8350, from Intel any I5 25xxk/3xxxk (like a 3450, 3570, 3570k, 2600k, 2500k) would all be much better gaming chips, and push a few more FPS out of that card than the A8 CPU would do.
Roland Of Gilead :
SpetZs :
Next month, i'll buy a PC. My friends and some people in the web, told that for the GTX 760, the best CPU choice is the A8-6600K.
What do you think?
I'm from Brazil, and this is my first post! Sorry if i write something wrong
What do you think?
I'm from Brazil, and this is my first post! Sorry if i write something wrong
Well, your friends aren't exactly correct there. The ' best choice'.....no definitely not. It's not a great choice. there are much better gaming chips out there, that would compliment a GTX 760 much better. It really depends on your budget.
The A8 will be a decent midrange gaming CPU, nothing special though.
For AMD the best chip is the FX8350, from Intel any I5 25xxk/3xxxk (like a 3450, 3570, 3570k, 2600k, 2500k) would all be much better gaming chips, and push a few more FPS out of that card than the A8 CPU would do.
Here, the things are very expensive. A GTX 760, in US, it costs 250$. In Brazil, it would be R$500, but it is R$1300!
But, does the AMD CPUs bottleneck with GTX 760?
Roland Of Gilead
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it's not a bad combination, and will get you med/high gaming on most games. Maybe no the newer ones. It's better than my system, that's for sure
So I would be happy with it if someone gave it to me! 
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The A8-6600k isn't exactly the best CPU for games that are CPU dependent, but it is decent enough. It is a bit slower than AMD's Phenom II CPUs from two generations ago. However, if that is what you already have then there's nothing you can really do unless you want to spend money to replace it. For games that are not really dependent on the CPU, then you should be fine.
For example, below is a performance chart for CPU using the GTX 680 in Crysis 3. The GTX 760 is not quite as powerful as the GTX 680, but the point is to look at performance level you are getting with your current CPU.
The A8-6600k is not part of the chart, but there is not much difference in performance compared to the slightly older Trinity APU. Therefore, look at the performance for the A10-5800k. Compare that to the AMD's Phenom II X4 980 that run 100MHz slower. In fact the Phenom II provides better performance than the newer FX-6200 Bulldozer core CPU; but that is no surprise to people who follows CPU performance. Crysis 3 performs better with Intel CPUs and AMD's FX-8350 CPUs, but they are more expensive than the A8-6600k.
http://www.techspot.com/review/642-crysis-3-performance/page6.html
BuddiLuva
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Since you are already going for a dedicated GPU, there would be no point getting an APU.
As the others have said go for the 8350 FX, or if you want something cheaper, go with the FX6300. Neither will bottleneck the graphics card.
Also make sure your motherboard is AM3+
As the others have said go for the 8350 FX, or if you want something cheaper, go with the FX6300. Neither will bottleneck the graphics card.
Also make sure your motherboard is AM3+
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