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Anybody here have experience? It's for my bro's build. He's thinking of getting a GTX 660, I had also looked at the new r9 270x which is basically a 7870ghz edition.
If it would bottleneck it, would the cheapish 6 core Piledriver fx 6300 be good? He's in love with the idea of having an 8 core like the 8320 or 8350 though.
And if going the 6/8 core FX route, would a 970 mobo suffice? Not really interested in SLI/Crossfire at all....He shares the same thought as I do that I'd rather just have a single strong gpu rather than 2 weaker ones.
Back to the subject on the A10-5800K itself, the FM2 socket Athlons I've seen posted on various sites for new builds are basically the 5800k without the integrated gpu. The a10-5800k is fine for playing stuff on 720p on low with no AA,etc (bleh), but my bro finally wants to step up to something that can comfortably play games on at least high on 1080p, he's not worried about 60fps constantly though, he's not nit-picky like that
On the a10-5800k and these "new" Athlons AFAIK they're completely missing L3 cache, is that a huge hindrance in demanding games at 1080p like BF4 multiplayer? That's mostly what I want to find him a decent cpu on a budget for.
And please nobody knocking AMD...I'm trying to do this on a budget and I played BF3 on his pc on low 720p metro and it played fine although looking bad graphic wise.
Thx for any help, I love discussing components
If it would bottleneck it, would the cheapish 6 core Piledriver fx 6300 be good? He's in love with the idea of having an 8 core like the 8320 or 8350 though.
And if going the 6/8 core FX route, would a 970 mobo suffice? Not really interested in SLI/Crossfire at all....He shares the same thought as I do that I'd rather just have a single strong gpu rather than 2 weaker ones.
Back to the subject on the A10-5800K itself, the FM2 socket Athlons I've seen posted on various sites for new builds are basically the 5800k without the integrated gpu. The a10-5800k is fine for playing stuff on 720p on low with no AA,etc (bleh), but my bro finally wants to step up to something that can comfortably play games on at least high on 1080p, he's not worried about 60fps constantly though, he's not nit-picky like that
On the a10-5800k and these "new" Athlons AFAIK they're completely missing L3 cache, is that a huge hindrance in demanding games at 1080p like BF4 multiplayer? That's mostly what I want to find him a decent cpu on a budget for.
And please nobody knocking AMD...I'm trying to do this on a budget and I played BF3 on his pc on low 720p metro and it played fine although looking bad graphic wise.
Thx for any help, I love discussing components
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