I'm looking for a new PC because my old laptop broke and I don't want to spend money on it getting repaired because it gives horrible performance anyways. Note that I will upgrade the GPU to a R7-260x in the near future. I want to play casual games like Minecraft, Source games, Rust, and War thunder. I have thought of 2 choices that I can get. I can get the Athlon X4-750k with a GT 610, I've seen benchmarks of a quad core playing Tf2 with the GT 610 and it gives 30-50fps while recording and 60-120fps while not recording. The second choice is getting intels i3-4130 with the integrated HD 4400 graphics. Since this has haswells socket, it gives lots of choices for upgrades while the athlon x4-750k leaves 1 CPU if I want to upgrade.
Athlon x4-750k+GT610 or i3-4130+HD 4400
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PandaBear270
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The athlon overheats alot even on stock, and its performance is rather mediocre. Get a FX 4350 that gives massive performance increase over athlon. For the GPU based on your needs, you can get a Radeon R7 265 / R7 260X or a lower R5 if you dont need more.. Don't use integrated iGPU, they just add more heat to the chip.
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So you are telling him to get a more expensive dual core over the AMD quad core, and to get a cheaper GPU? I can't see it at all.
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Get either a FX 4300, FX 4350 or a Athlon X4 760K. You said you will upgrade the GPU later so no problems there.
But, if you CAN afford a i5 4440, that will be more solid.
But, if you CAN afford a i5 4440, that will be more solid.
The a8 6600k apu is the best choice here imo, I went the same route myself, when you add the dgpu later you'll have a better binned athlon with higher stock clocks. I would get a8, fm2+ a88x mobo, a quiet aftermarket cooler and some dual channel 1866-2133mhz memory, that would game, much, much better than the gt610/hd4400 for around the same money and the a8 shouldnt bottleneck the r7 265 later.
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Hope the Kaveri Athlons will be better, because the Richlands are really disspaointing. They can't keep with an i3 and they overheat a lot. And this is from a guy who always loved AMD.
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Recording games implies the use of FRAPS, the edition of the video in Sony Vegas and the posterior encode.
Therefore get FX 6***, FX 8**** or Xeon / i7.
Therefore get FX 6***, FX 8**** or Xeon / i7.
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Get the i3-4330/50. It has the Intel Hd 4600 graphics instead of the i3-4130/50's HD 4400. The 4600 is better than the 4400, but not much, and still you will definitely want a dedicated GPU down the road.
The HD 4600 is a better GPU than the GT 610, and by getting an i3 over an AMD CPU, you are getting a lot more ability to upgrade, significantly less power consumption (which really does add up, and it will save you probably $10-30 a year) and it is a better CPU in just about everything.
Hope that helps!
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