How badly will an AMD a8 6600k processor bottleneck a GTX 1060? What motherboard CPU combo could I purchase on a budget?
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It will bottleneck pretty badly. AMD really doesn't have any good offering at the moment to match with newer GPU's. You can either wait till AMD's new processor/motherboards or go to intel side. On intel you can go budget with a haswell chip (wont need to buy new ram either) and a LGA 1150 motherboard, or go future proof skylake CPU with new motherboard and RAM
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Depending on the game it will be passable. It won't be an unplayable bottleneck at all. However in any title that is CPU heavy (think RTS games or anything multiplayer that the cpu has a lot to keep track of) you may notice some slowdowns.
Personally I would live with it until you can afford to do the upgrade right. Throwing as little money as possible at the cheapest thing that won't bottleneck it does not make good financial sense.
Personally I would live with it until you can afford to do the upgrade right. Throwing as little money as possible at the cheapest thing that won't bottleneck it does not make good financial sense.
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Its significantly better than what you have and a good combination. The problem is its a generation older hardware still.
However if I were you I would hold out a little and save up for an i5-6600k, a Z170 motherboard, and some DDR4 ram. Its faster, overclockable so in the future if you want to squeeze bit more out of it you can, and the next generation of Intel processors should work with it, so should you a couple years down the road want even more power there will be processor upgrades available to you.
When it comes to computers buying the newest fastest thing you can afford often pays off in dividends later in life.
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If you're looking for a full system upgrade just wait till the new 7th gen core and amd zen processors come out. But the apu processors aren't really meant to be used with high preforming graphics cards. They are meant for light gaming with their igpu and in some comes crossfire with a compatible low end amd gpu. APUs generally have less processing power. If you do want to upgrade the video card you will see an improvement, there will be a bottleneck however. You can upgrade the gpu now and save up for the new generation of processors. Since the LGA 1151 and am3+ processors are going to be obsolete in an few months.
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