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Roxas_Boy

Roxas_Boy

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I'm asking this on behalf of my sister as she's under 13 and not allowed to post on here.

She has a decent enough build and I am going to overclock for her, question is if we go and get her a GTX 760 or R9 270X when the iGPU is disabled will the APU/CPU run cooler so I can overclock better or will it stay the same? I already have hers at 4.6ghz 1.4v stable and RAM from 1866mhz to 2133mhz stable
 
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Well, I aren't an APU owner but I know that the CPU Does run hotter when integrated graphics is being used, therefore you can OC it more as it won't be as hot as the integrated graphics will be disabled.
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Yeah because my friend has the same build as my sister but has a Athlon II X4 760K (A10 6800K with no iGPU) and runs it with a 760 with no decrease in performance compared to FX 6300/6350 benchmarks with 760
 
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I know some people might think it's a waste of money getting an APU and using discrete graphics but at the time we built this my sister was only playing sims, portal, some platformers and a few indie games so that was more than enough but now she wants to play Titanfall and Battlefield 4 etc that's why she's gonna spend her cash on a 760/270x
 
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well, that will be a much better experience then using the integrated graphics. Some say Spending $3000 on just the desktop is a waste, and you'll never use all the Hex core processor cores....I have four applications open at a time and I actually needed a Hex core, but people I know don't understand these things. I don't think it is a waste of money as that was planned for what was being done before, now it is time for an upgrade and at least she got use out of the integrated graphics...Better then buying an integrated graphics CPU and buying a graphics card with it. That was done for a reason getting an integrated graphics CPU then.
 
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I have an a10-5800k and an a10-7850k. And your overclock will not give u that much on that cpu. After about 6 months running like that the chip will be nearly done (as it was with mine) I had great initial performance gains on benchmarks but after about 6 or 8 months my benchmark scores were almost 10% lower than the stock clock was when it was brand new.

That being said, yes disabling the igpu will lower temps but not by that much maybe 5-8 c. Hope that helps with my 2 cents
 
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