Good CPU to run with Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Dual-X OC 2GB DDR5 256-bit

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celalalt

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I just bought a Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Dual-X OC 2GB DDR5 256-bit. What AMD CPU do you think would match this GPU? I should mention that right now I have an old AMD Athlon X3 at 3400MHz.
 
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The FX 6300 is the best combo for the GPU, provides balanced perf in terms of GPU and CPU power in games, runs BF4 solid 60 fps on Ultra without Mantle(I owned that particular spec) with the Asus M5A97 R2.0(good board for decent overclocking).

APU's cant run better GPU's than the R7 260X as the CPU will be the bottleneck,better get a proper CPU(you can,but you'll see,and i personally built a system based on FM2+ platform for my friend) and decent OC'ing will help the CPU past bottlenecking the card.
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I half agree with above post. I had an X4 750K (Athlon II) on a decent FM2+ board. Gigabyte G1 Sniper (green motherboard) with an MSI R9 270, and I think it had thermal throttling issues. The VRM's had no heatsink. When I overclocked, the benchmark results were worse than stock speeds on CPU, and I had plenty of fans and good CPU cooler.

HOWEVER. I am 1 part away from my complete new build. FX 6300, MSI 970 gaming motherboard AM3+. (same price range motherboard) and its so much better already, I'm using a piece of junk GT 605 graphics card for now, until 3 days when I order a GTX 960 4GB. Temps on VRM never go over 63c. And there seems to be no problems at all, benchmarks show the CPU to be awesome, and even a temporary OC to 4.3Ghz showed some impressive increase in benchmark results (passmark etc) So I would definitely praise the FX series processors. If you do go for FM2+, I would recommend a motherboard with VRM heatsinks, and even buy one of the APU's A10 7850k (whatever its called) paired with as far ram as possible, and coupled with a suitable GPU which it can crossfire with, and you will have very good gaming performance. I've seen stock A10s play BF4 at medium settings 1080p 30FPS. (with 2400mhz ram)
 
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The FX 6300 is the best combo for the GPU, provides balanced perf in terms of GPU and CPU power in games, runs BF4 solid 60 fps on Ultra without Mantle(I owned that particular spec) with the Asus M5A97 R2.0(good board for decent overclocking).

APU's cant run better GPU's than the R7 260X as the CPU will be the bottleneck,better get a proper CPU(you can,but you'll see,and i personally built a system based on FM2+ platform for my friend) and decent OC'ing will help the CPU past bottlenecking the card.
 
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How's the performance with the GTX 960? How well does it perform against the R9 270?(I have no 960 for testing). Im skipping it for the 970 due to the 128-bit bottleneck in graphic intensive games.
 
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