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adamnlinka

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Hello guys.
I have a HTPC with AMD A6-5400k cpu. It's used mostly for playing movies and browsing web and it does the job really well. But now I'm thinking of buying xbox controller and some graphics card to make this HTPC ready for games (mostly for single player). I'd like to play following games: cod series, battlefield, mass effect, new alien isolation, formula, dirt, nfs, bioshock, mafia, maybe farcry and tomb raider. My imagination is 1080p with decent fps (60 would be super cool). Integrated gpu is not powerful enough, so I was thinking about discrete card. I think r7 250x should be ok for my requirements, but I'm not really sure about bottleneck. I tried putting my 7870 to HTPC and run gta iv. I was getting about the same lowest fps as with iGPU. Since gta iv is really cpu heavy game, it wasn't surprise for me. But what about the games I mentioned before? Do you guys have some experiences with these games? Also if you recommend me another graphics card, I would be grateful.
 
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Yes that would be a great choice. The Athlon is a great price to performance ratio and wouldn't bottleneck your 260x.
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If you can find an old 7790, That would be a perfect solution for under $100. Too much higher of a GPU would be bottlenecked by your CPU. Your integrated CPU is way to weak to even crossfire with for games. The 7790 is quite good on power usage so you could probably get by with a quality 350w power supply as the card never pulls more than 225 watts. The 7790 outperforms the r7 250 significantly and should provide better framerates. Hope that helps.
 
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Now the CPU you have right now is pretty low end, and it would probably bottleneck some GPU's. The games that you want to play seem pretty demanding. I wouldn't get the r7 250x because for just a little more you can get a lot more performance.
I would suggest:

R7 260(X)
GTX 750(ti)

These cards can pretty much run any game on medium settings, but your CPU could bottleneck.

To be honest, I would just suggest that you should just build a new system, but that's if you have the money for it.
 
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You're going to want something better than an R5. I would get an R7 265, I've seen them on sale with rebates for just over $100. If the power demands of that card are too high, the 750ti is the most powerful card that doesn't need a 6pin PCIE. They are around $125 after rebates.
 
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adamnlinka

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First of all thanks for your responses.
I dont want to build whole new system, because the current isn't really old. I have 350w seasonic, so power wont be problem. 260(x) looks like good idea. 750ti is great, but not really cheap in my country and to be honest id like to stick to amd in terms of gpu :D So would you guys agree, if I get 260x and if cpu will be a problem i will get quadcore athlon for fm2 socket?
 
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Yes that would be a great choice. The Athlon is a great price to performance ratio and wouldn't bottleneck your 260x.
 
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