A10-5800K VS FX-6300 (For Gaming)

[Fatenekki]

I'm planning to get a new budget gaming PC, FX-6300 + HD7770, my friend insisted that I should get A10-5800K instead of FX-6300 because I'm tight on budget, then get HD7770 later for more high end gaming.

In other words, my friend wants me to buy A10-5800K, then HD7770, treating APU as CPU, wasting APU's integrated graphic's feature or just get a GPU that could crossfire with it. In long term view, how viable is this?

How viable is A10-5800k for future upgrade and high-end gaming? I'm sure if I'd just be a little picky on RAM and PSU, the total price gap between them wouldn't be that much... We've been arguing this for days...

 

[twelve25]

A10-5800K and FX-6300 are based on the newer Piledriver module technology.

A10-5800K has 2 piledriver modules and very limited L3 cache
FX-6300 has 3 piledriver modules with normal L3 cache.
A10 is clocked a bit faster than the fx-6300 (3.8 vs 3.6Ghz)
Almost no games will not use more than 4 cores, but who knows if this will change.

What this means is you get nearly identical performance for gaming, but the FX-6300 will considerably faster in many non gaming apps due to the extra cores.

A10 has a great built in GPU compared to other GPUs, but it still performs like a $40-50 graphics card. It would be on par with like a 6570. So you can game, but most good games will be running at lowest resolution and low graphics quality. 7770 is in a whole different league.

 

[Fatenekki]

Thank you for clarifying the performance between A10-5800K and FX-6300! I have more question though.

I read that AMD is planning to release A-Series Richland and Kaveri. Is there any information that tells how well they will perform as standalone "CPU"?
For example, I bought A10-5800K and HD7770 and half year later I will be buy for new APU for better processing power. How viable is A series, FM mobo for future upgrade? (That means I'll not using APU's integrated graphics unless GPU dies).
From what I read, AM3+ mobo seems to be better choice for higher CPU speed upgrades.

Thoughts please?