Need advice on upgrading APU

madarahadian

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Hello everyone,

I have a custom built PC with the following specs:

AMD A4-6300 APU @3.7Ghz with Radeon HD Graphics
Mobo is a Gigabyte f2a68hm-ds2
RAM is Corsair 2x4gb
PSU is a Corsair vs450
And an 1360x768 generic LG monitor

i want to upgrade my pc to play DotA 2 more smoothly and running Fruity Loops,
should i add r7 250 2gb DDR5 GPU or change the APU to a10 7870k/7890k instead? or maybe which one should i buy first? because of the limited budget i can only buy 1 item at the moment.

and what's a better gpu than r7 250 which still have d-sub connector?

(i am a bit worried about the wraith cooler size, would it fit to the motherboard and won't intersect with the ram slots?)
 
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If you really need to make this change now I would say go with the 7890k it is a quad core over your current dual core. and it also has r7 graphics. so that would be the better choice. However if you could wait, The next generation of AMD gpus will be coming out in the not too distant future, and that would be a better idea.

urbancamper

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If you really need to make this change now I would say go with the 7890k it is a quad core over your current dual core. and it also has r7 graphics. so that would be the better choice. However if you could wait, The next generation of AMD gpus will be coming out in the not too distant future, and that would be a better idea.
 
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