I5 & R7 260x VS Fx 6300 & R9 270

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If you want to game then you absolutely MUST get the system with the better graphics card. The R9 270 is a solid card.

There are just so few games that are even remotely effected by CPU horsepower. Sure, more is better, but when you're on a budget the one thing you don't need is a powerful processor that you simply aren't going to make much use of. For the home user CPU bound tasks tend to be things that you won't care if they take twice as long (say extracting a large RAR file), and the extra performance just doesn't matter to you a jot.

You can play most modern games on any modern CPU, barring the very very low end. You can happily play modern games on an i3 (although with some caveats) and an FX-6300 is more than adequate for...
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If you want to game then you absolutely MUST get the system with the better graphics card. The R9 270 is a solid card.

There are just so few games that are even remotely effected by CPU horsepower. Sure, more is better, but when you're on a budget the one thing you don't need is a powerful processor that you simply aren't going to make much use of. For the home user CPU bound tasks tend to be things that you won't care if they take twice as long (say extracting a large RAR file), and the extra performance just doesn't matter to you a jot.

You can play most modern games on any modern CPU, barring the very very low end. You can happily play modern games on an i3 (although with some caveats) and an FX-6300 is more than adequate for anything you do on a day to day basis. Get the graphics card. It'll pay for itself immediately, while a better processor might never earn it's money back - I still do animation and cut video on my Core2Quad Q8200 - Sure things take more time to render and transcode, but things always are going to take some amount of time to render no matter how much power you have. And if I did that all day every day, I could see the benefit. But I just do it every now and again, just to brush up on my skills, and so even adding an extra half hour to a project that takes me six or eight hours to do just doesn't matter, especially since I don't have the money to upgrade anyway.
 
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