AMD A8 Performance and Bottlenecks

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Tristan123

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Hey people,

I built my PC a couple of years ago for the casual gamer with and AMD A8-7600 CPU, 8Gb RAM (1600Mhz), and an AMD R7 250 (sapphire 2gb DDR3) GPU.

My motherboard has an FM2+ CPU soccet so my processor is pretty much the best one I can possibly have without having to change my motherboard (well the AMD Athlon x4 860K is very slightly better I think), so I'm gonna keep it.

I want to change my graphics card though. I want maybe an R9 280 or a GTX 960. All I want to know is if my processor will bottleneck my new GPU and if it will, will I really notice it?

Republik of Gamers UK posted a link to a PC yesterday which had an R9 285 with an Athlon 860K so I thought that if that PC has pretty much the same CPU power as mine, surely I can get the same GPU power as it without bottlenecks! Am I right?

Thanks for any answers!
 
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I had the same question for my a8 6600k few days ago ... and for the answer that i recived and for videos that i´ve watched , yes you go well with either gpu without bottlenecks (on most of games ) some games can be more cpu intensive and you can lose some fps there , btw either gpu will be better than your actual gpu , so you will play better even with a litlle bottlenecks (if you have on some game ) . I think 960m it´s a very good choise (chose gigabyte version ) .

PS : your CPU isn´t unlocked ...
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Depends on the games that you plan to play, only in CPU intensive games, the CPU will hold the system back, but is actually good combo, a R9 280 or a GTX 960 would fit well that CPU. If you can overclock it will perform much better.
 
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I had the same question for my a8 6600k few days ago ... and for the answer that i recived and for videos that i´ve watched , yes you go well with either gpu without bottlenecks (on most of games ) some games can be more cpu intensive and you can lose some fps there , btw either gpu will be better than your actual gpu , so you will play better even with a litlle bottlenecks (if you have on some game ) . I think 960m it´s a very good choise (chose gigabyte version ) .

PS : your CPU isn´t unlocked , so it´s not possible to overclock.
 
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well heres my feedback cuz i had before and A8-6600k and a FM mobo. and bought a GTX 960. in most part i havent had any issue with bottleneck cuz i havent had a intel i5 before. and most of my game are world of tanks, motogp, ride, mass effect except world of tank cuz it had 30-40 fps on costum low. and wot is my main game so i decided to change my setup. and man, when i play it in intel i5 all game are all max out. and constant fps 60 in wot cuz i had my Vsync on

bottomline it can game but its different when it come to which platform. APU has bottleneck you would'nt notice it if have not tried intel.
 
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Rui Neves

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i can play most of games on medium at least and i have just an asus r7 250x 1gb , for example GTA V on medium at 40-50fps . 960 will improve performance on most games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=043k36bxN6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ8TzYl673Q
 
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Blake_28

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Why gigabyte? i recently purchased an asus strix 960 whats the difference?
 
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just a question of preference by the brand , doesn't not have almost any difference on performance
 
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Blake_28

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Okay thanks

 
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