Will AMD Athlon X4 CPU work with my PC?

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GreyStorm404

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I am planning on building a gaming PC. I already have the case, hard drive, mobo, and PSU. So I was wondering if the AMD Athlon X4 AD750KWOHJBOX 100W 3.4Ghz Processor can work with this setup:

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8 GB ( 2 x 4 GB ) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) 240-Pin DDR3 Memory Kit for Core i3, i5, i7 and Platforms SDRAM CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9

GPU: EVGA GTX 650 Ti

MoBo: MSI B75MA-P45

And if this CPU isn't compatible, is there one that's about as powerful as this?
 
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getochkn
No, that's an intel board, you need an amd board.

What is your budget, the athlon chip is a bit old, the FX sereies is the better sereis of chips.
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Well, I can't really spend any more than about $130. I was gonna get an Intel i3, but I heard that the AMD Athlon X4 was better for less. Would the i3 be good for gaming, with a EVGA GTX 650 Ti?
 
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VincezioVonHook

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Yes an i3 is great for gaming! it will be roughly on par with an FX-4300/Athlon x4 in multi-threaded games, but will knock their socks off when it comes to single threaded games like skrim for example. An i3/650 Ti would be good for most new games eg Tomb raider/BF4 on medium 1080p around 30-40 frames per second. When it ocmes to anything under a 7870/R270x or 670/760 gtx, the GPU is the bottleneck for newer games. Some of the newer i3 haswell's are getting some incredible results for a dual core cpu!
 
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Yea its a fair bit better than a 650 ti, but what is the price difference where you are? Here some comparisons

http://www.hwcompare.com/13789/geforce-gtx-650-ti-2gb-vs-geforce-gtx-660/

The difference would be akin to high/ultra at 1080p and medium settings for the 650ti. The 660 has nearly double the memory bandwidth and 25% more pixel and texel fill rates. I have a hd 7850 2gb and i can run BF4 at average 40-50fps on ultra and a solid 80fps on ultra with msaa off! and the 660 probably has a little bit better performance than my 7850! I payed $210 Australian for my 7850 and im pretty happy with that. I also have an FX-6300 6 core though, the i3 will have slighlty less maybe 5 frames on some ultra threaded games, but my i3 3240 can keep up if not beat my fx playing starcraft/skyrim/f1 2013.
 
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