CPU under $100 that will minor/not bottleneck my GPU

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EverythjngBlack

EverythjngBlack

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Last time I asked I got recommended an insane price of $200 (cpu, motherboard, ram) and my budget is not that high with my son's computer, so here are his specs:
P.S. I am not replacing the motherboard unless it really affects the cpu so much.

RX 570 Strix 4GB
AMD A10-7860K (heard this was a massive bottleneck)
16GB DDR3 RAM
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3HP
 
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chemmajorp53
The APU that you have now is basically the fastest CPU that you can get on FM2, there's no point getting a 7870K or an 860K as they're only very marginally faster. I'd say that the best course of action for now would be to save up for new hardware such as an intel i5/mobo/ddr4 or a Ryzen R5/mobo/ddr4. You're going to hit a point with a CPU bottleneck where changing graphical settings won't affect your FPS, so I'd suggest turning the settings up as a high as your GPU can handle a decent framerate at. The bottleneck will also be highly game dependent. Far Cry games, for example, will exhibit much less of a bottleneck than something like CSGO or GTA V.
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EverythjngBlack

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how about the minimum amount of bottleneck
 
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MrN1ce9uy

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There are no other options with your current motherboard if you want a better CPU, you will have to upgrade to a new motherboard and DDR4 RAM. $170-$200 is the minimum cost of a CPU/Mobo/RAM (Pentium G4560/B250/DDR4) combo that will be worth the upgrade, and even then there will be some bottlenecking in CPU intensive games.
 
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chemmajorp53

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The APU that you have now is basically the fastest CPU that you can get on FM2, there's no point getting a 7870K or an 860K as they're only very marginally faster. I'd say that the best course of action for now would be to save up for new hardware such as an intel i5/mobo/ddr4 or a Ryzen R5/mobo/ddr4. You're going to hit a point with a CPU bottleneck where changing graphical settings won't affect your FPS, so I'd suggest turning the settings up as a high as your GPU can handle a decent framerate at. The bottleneck will also be highly game dependent. Far Cry games, for example, will exhibit much less of a bottleneck than something like CSGO or GTA V.
 
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