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Geiser45

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This thread could become a tiresome black hole .
My system is running: Asrock Fm2a88-hd+ motherboard
AMD A10 Series 7870 CPU
Geforce 960 2GB GPU
8GB Ram
Gaming Power pack
I don,t want to have to upgrade my whole system to Intel as it's way to costly , considering the spend so far.In order for my graphics acceleration and suspension to facilitate quality gameplay i need to upgrade my present motherboard which was about 45 pounds.
I want to buy a decent motherboard which will inevitably bring the cpu and gpu to a higher power.
At the same time as governing/preparing for the eventual change of the gpu to perhaps a 4gb or something better even.
Are there any helpers?
 
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"In order for my graphics acceleration and suspension to facilitate quality gameplay i need to upgrade my present motherboard which was about 45 pounds. I want to buy a decent motherboard which will inevitably bring the cpu and gpu to a higher power."

Upgrading your motherboard will not have any effect on gaming performance (or any performance really, other than possibly storage and connectivity).

And you don't need to upgrade your mobo in order to prepare for a gpu upgrade.
 
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for 1080p gaming 960 can do medium to high and maybe ultra if u sacrifice some fps..

so the best option would be going to Intel cuz it will improve ur performance by some margin.. go for a Intel 4690k and a z series mobo and it will cost u like 350.. if u want go skylark u might have to buy a ram as well...
 
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The motherboard has very little to do with cpu performance; I think you would be wasting your money to try.

You are stuck.

You buy a APU for the excellent integrated graphics.
But, there are no real good upgrades, particularly for a gamer.
If you install a superior discrete graphics card, you will have thrown away the big advantage of the APU.
Then, you are left with a relatively weak cpu. Most games depend on only a few fast cores.
The possible upgrades are to more cores, but few games will use more than 2-3 cores so 6+ cores are not very helpful.
Bottom line.....
What you get with a APU is what you will live with forever.
 
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As one said, changing the mother board will NOT improve any performance. Simple example for you....I moved from a AMD system to a Intel, same video card, and got over 20+FPS just because it was a Intel cpu. Pretty big jump. AMD is just too many generations behind Intel. There is no contest anymore. It's pretty sad.
 
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Ok!
You all seem to reckon on upgrading the gpu , possibly to a 4gb version of the 2gb i,m running.
The GPU is the component in the equation that will not comply to the needed image framerate.
Thanks the bundle!
 
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The graphics portion of your APU is useless because of your discrete video card, so you're left with a CPU that's probably roughly equivalent to an AMD X4 860K or Intel Pentium G3258. When it comes to CPUs for gaming, those CPUs are pretty low on the list, and already probably under powered for a GTX 960, let alone whatever GPU you'd upgrage to.

I'd recommend upgrading to at least an i3. If you plan on upgrading your GPU down the road and want to make sure you're not going to bottleneck it, it might be worth going to an i5.
 
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Ok i,ll have a delve into that!
Sorry the gpu was actually a mistype in that previous post.
I meant to carry on with the cpu discussion.
So an i5 should take the graph card to a more integrated level?
 
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An i3 would pair well with your current GTX 960. If you're thinking of upgrading your GPU (to a GTX 970, for example) any time soon and want to make sure that you CPU can keep up, it may be worth investing a bit more and getting an i5.
 
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