Will a Intel Pentium Dual-Core G4400 3.3 GHz and a GTX 750 TI play games better than a AMD A10 7850K and a GTX 750

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I currently have a A58M-E mother board with a AMD A10 7850K and I recently bought a GTX 750ti to try to improve its gaming performance, even with the GTX 750ti added to it its still struggling to run games such as league of legends and overwatch so I was wondering if i bought a
Asus H110M-A D3 Motherboard and paired it with a Intel Pentium Dual-Core G4400 3.3 GHz(I am planning to upgrade to an intel I5 when i have more money) and the GTX 750 TI if it would run games better?
 
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The Pentium will do better in games that aren't really well threaded, but those that are will probably be slightly better on the A10. League should run much better on the Pentium, but Overwatch might actually run a bit worse. If you average it out, the Pentium is more of a side-grade. An i3 6100 would be more than twice as fast as what you have, and is probably the cheapest CPU that's a real upgrade.

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The Pentium will do better in games that aren't really well threaded, but those that are will probably be slightly better on the A10. League should run much better on the Pentium, but Overwatch might actually run a bit worse. If you average it out, the Pentium is more of a side-grade. An i3 6100 would be more than twice as fast as what you have, and is probably the cheapest CPU that's a real upgrade.

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Okay I will go with an I3 6100, I'm guessing it should be fine to use the 8Gb Kingston DDR3 1600Mhz RAM and the hard drive I already have and will this PSU http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/thunder-series/thunder-500w/ support all this or would I need another one?
 
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Be careful - most Skylake motherboards only support DDR4, and those that support DDR3 are often a little more expensive than their DDR4 counterparts. I'm on the fence when giving people advice about upgrading regarding RAM - do you immediately move over to the faster, newer, cheaper DDR4, which is likely to continue to become more cheaper than DDR3 (for which production is ramping down) over time, making future upgrades less expensive too, or do you save a bit of money now by reusing the DDR3 you already have and worry about it later?

I would personally be tempted to put the DDR3 up on eBay or the classifieds here and replace it, but I don't think either is a wrong choice.
 
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I think I will just use the ones I already have to save some time and money, also will setting all this up be difficult because I have never done any kind of pc building since my one was prebuilt, so i was wondering if this is something a novice like me can do on my own or if i should get someone to do it for me?
 
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Make sure that it is DDR3-L before you do this (1.35V or below). Typical DDR3 voltages will damage the memory controller in Skylake CPUs.
 
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It's because the damage isn't done immediately. DDR3's voltage is alot higher and DDR4. 1.2(DDR4) vs 1.5(DDR3). The higher voltage puts more strain on the Skylake CPU Memory Controller. Slowly killing it. The CPU Will die from memory controller failure WAY before it would die of age. It would be alot safer to buy a dual channel 8 GB kit of DDR4.
 
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