Question NVIDIA Geforce GT730 for A8-6600k?

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Praveen Krishnamoorthy

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Hi guys,
I have an AMD A8-6600k APU installed on-board. I am aware of the fact that this has an inbuilt API (1GB).

Now I was wondering if i could also install an NVIDIA GeForce GT730? Will this improve my graphic performance compared to the inbuilt graphics memory? And would this Nvidia card be compatible for my PC as well?

My PC specs are mentioned below:

CPU : AMD Black Edition A8-6600K APU (Accelerated Processing Unit,inbuilt AMD Radeon HD 8570D, 2048 MB )
Memory : 8GB x 2, Kingston HyperX
Mainboard : ASUS A68HM-K,

Thanks for the help!
 
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Jeff Mongillo

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If I might suggest, you would be better off finding a Radeon HD 6670 card, then you could go into your BIOS and activate AMD Dual Graphics and get the benefit of BOTH the GPU (card) and APU (the A8) giving you roughly the equivalent of about an R7 260X which would run most games (it might struggle with the highest end new games). I started off this build about 18 months ago with an Athlon X4 750K CPU, upgraded to the A8 6600K APU and now am running the Athlon X4 860K. I have an FX 6300 I will be installing when I can get a new motherboard (AM3+ instead of the FM2+ of the APU line). I found that when running the HD 6670 card with the APU, it showed very nice detail and most of the games I was playing at the time improved about 10% with the additional GPU included. Of course, I eventually when back to discrete graphics when I got an R9 270. The 6600K will run fine with the HD 6670, HD 6570 and I've heard the HD 7770 as well, tho I cannot verify that last part.
 
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Praveen Krishnamoorthy

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Thanks for the reply Jeff.

Actually, a mate of mine is giving away his Geforce GT730 for free. So i dont want to spend another 200 Euros to get a new graphisc card (like a Radeon HD6670).. I also read that its better not to crossfire this Nvidia card with an A8-6600k and in fact it is stronger than the inbuilt graphics card in the A8-6600k. Any thoughts on that?
 
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Jeff Mongillo

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OK...Here's a little something, just to clarify for you. You can't crossfire any nVidia GPUs with an AMD APU. The APU is socket based (built onto the CPU die) where the nVidia GPU is slot based (a card inserted into a slot on the mainboard, generally PCIe, PCI or AGP depending. The HD 6670 is integrated onto a GPU card that goes into a PCIe slot (x16) and thru the system bus, integrates with the Onboard graphics of the APU thru a process developed by AMD, called Dual Graphics, It's sort of LIKE Crossfire and/or SLI, but is all done at a base level. As for costs, I was not aware that the European market had been raising costs for older GPUs that much. Bummer, really. Good Luck. The GT 730/740 is an OK card, but not really a lot better than just using the on board GPU on your A8-6600K. shrug
 
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Praveen Krishnamoorthy

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Thanks for explaining how it works Jeff. You have been very kind and its hard to find people like you on the internet these days.

I wasn't aware of the fact that you cannot cross Nvidia cards into an AMD CPU. Never the less, i finally installed the Nvidia card today, so long so good. Also i was wrong about the prices for a new Radeon HD6670 on the market, its around 95 Euros now, at least thats what i read.

Have a good one!
 
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Is your mate giving a GT 730 away? Grab that right now! Don't get an old card (6670)...
 
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