- Jun 17, 2014
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Recently bought a PC for £500 that I intend to use for general computing plus media such as movies and music. after a few months I plan to upgrade it with a gpu to allow fairly high end gaming on the system aswell.
The specs of the system at present are:
Asrock fm2a75 pro4+
AMD a10 6800k
1X 8GB 1600 mhz
1 TB 7200 RPM SATA3
Zalman Z3 plus
Corsair CX 600
I have read posts online of people saying an apu and a gpu is a waste and a stupid idea, however I want to enjoy rich media and some light gaming before upgrading the gpu, hence why I'm getting a cpu with graphics built in. I'm looking for opinions on this rig and to hear people's views on the apu+gpu thing.
The gpu I intend to buy is an r9 270X (maybe 4GB edition) but no higher than this as I've been informed a 280X and above would be bottlenecked by the 6800k. I will also be adding another stick of ram at some stage to bring it up to dual channel 16GB.
Thanks in advance
The specs of the system at present are:
Asrock fm2a75 pro4+
AMD a10 6800k
1X 8GB 1600 mhz
1 TB 7200 RPM SATA3
Zalman Z3 plus
Corsair CX 600
I have read posts online of people saying an apu and a gpu is a waste and a stupid idea, however I want to enjoy rich media and some light gaming before upgrading the gpu, hence why I'm getting a cpu with graphics built in. I'm looking for opinions on this rig and to hear people's views on the apu+gpu thing.
The gpu I intend to buy is an r9 270X (maybe 4GB edition) but no higher than this as I've been informed a 280X and above would be bottlenecked by the 6800k. I will also be adding another stick of ram at some stage to bring it up to dual channel 16GB.
Thanks in advance
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