Will a Amd Athlon x4 750K bottleneck a R7 265

andycal

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I'm building a real cheap computer for my neighbor's son. I managed to pickup a brand new x4 750K processor for $60 off of ebay. Newegg is currently selling a XFX R7 265 for $149 with 15% off and a $20 mail-in rebate card. I'm trying to keep this as low as possible for him because he's a student and needs a new pc.It's a mini itx build because he won't have a lot of space in his dorm room. I already got a GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI FM2+ board with a cooler master elite 130 case. I'm hooking him up with a 1TB WD Blue hard drive and 8GB G.Skill 1600Mhz Ram. Will he okay with the R7 265? I know there's no need to install a R9 280x card because the bottleneck will be severe. Below I posted the link for the graphics card on Newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150719
 
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You will get slight bottleneck when playing CPU intensive games,but you will be ok besides that.
OCing the 750K will help decrease the bottlenecking.

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I planned on overclocking it to 4.0 to 4.2GHz. I will be using a Noctua NH-L9a 92mm SSO2 CPU Cooler. I used Noctua coolers in the past, so I trust them to achieve the overclocking I want to do to the cpu. He plays a lot of Battlefield 4, so I know he'll need the overclock to run it on a 1080p monitor.
 

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That's an interesting thought. I'll pull up pcpartpicker.com and see what I can find. I original picked the XFX R7 265 because of the price and 256 bit memory interface