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Help making Computer Budget
Here the stuff:

Mother board: ASRock FM2A78M-HD+ FM2+ / FM2 AMD A78 (Bolton D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Processor: AMD A6-5400K Trinity Dual-Core 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7540D

Ram: G.SKILL Value 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C11S-4GNT (1x)

Graphic card: MSI R9 270X GAMING 2G Radeon R9 270X 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Power supply: Help

Hard drive: Gonna use my friends if that works

Case: my friends old case is good enough for air flow buts its the box.

Questions:
Does any hard drive work a standard hard drive?
Does any Graphic card work with PSI x16?
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October 17, 2014 11:56:19 PM

Zerk2012 said:
Helldog26 said:
Yeah the problem with doing that means you will have to get a AM 3+ mobo which doesnt have a PCIe 3.0 which is required for that GPU. It maybe cheaper but you will be upgrading again in a few months. Go with the A6/270x combo it will last a bit longer and you wont have to upgrade mobo,cpu,and graphics card in a few months.

This is false information you don't need a 3.0 slot to run any card their backwards compatible. Your not going to saturate a 2.0 slot with a 270X or even a 290
The A6 5400K does not support PCI 3.0 so no matter what board you buy it will still only run the PCI-e slot at 2.0 it also has no L3 cache.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-A6-Series%2...
Integrated peripherals / components



Integrated graphics ◾GPU Type: Radeon HD 7540D
Shader cores: 192
Base frequency (MHz): 760

Memory controller ◾The number of controllers: 1
Memory channels: 2
Supported memory: DDR3-1866
Maximum memory bandwidth (GB/s): 29.9

Other peripherals ◾ PCI Express 2.0
◾ Unified Video Decoder 3.2 ?





You are right. I completely missed the fact that the A6-5400k is an FM2 not an FM2+ my bad.

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October 17, 2014 7:58:50 AM

Helldog26 said:
Yeah the problem with doing that means you will have to get a AM 3+ mobo which doesnt have a PCIe 3.0 which is required for that GPU. It maybe cheaper but you will be upgrading again in a few months. Go with the A6/270x combo it will last a bit longer and you wont have to upgrade mobo,cpu,and graphics card in a few months.

This is false information you don't need a 3.0 slot to run any card their backwards compatible. Your not going to saturate a 2.0 slot with a 270X or even a 290
The A6 5400K does not support PCI 3.0 so no matter what board you buy it will still only run the PCI-e slot at 2.0 it also has no L3 cache.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-A6-Series%2...
Integrated peripherals / components



Integrated graphics ◾GPU Type: Radeon HD 7540D
Shader cores: 192
Base frequency (MHz): 760

Memory controller ◾The number of controllers: 1
Memory channels: 2
Supported memory: DDR3-1866
Maximum memory bandwidth (GB/s): 29.9

Other peripherals ◾ PCI Express 2.0
◾ Unified Video Decoder 3.2 ?




October 17, 2014 1:10:20 AM

Yeah the problem with doing that means you will have to get a AM 3+ mobo which doesnt have a PCIe 3.0 which is required for that GPU. It maybe cheaper but you will be upgrading again in a few months. Go with the A6/270x combo it will last a bit longer and you wont have to upgrade mobo,cpu,and graphics card in a few months.
October 16, 2014 9:51:57 AM

I agree FX 6300 paired with a AM 3+ motherboard will give you better performance, or look at the 760K processor if your budget is low.
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October 16, 2014 7:15:51 AM

There is 0 need to get an A6 if you are getting a video card. For an a cheaper AMD gaming CPU, get the FX 6300.
October 15, 2014 11:51:19 PM

Someone told me AMD A6-5400K Trinity Dual-Core 3.6GHz + MSI R9 270X GAMING 2G Radeon R9 270X 2GB, will bottleneck. Not sure who to listen to...
October 15, 2014 11:26:24 PM

It looks like that should work fine. The mobo has one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot and the 270x should not have a problem. The HDD should not be an issue. It will plug via SATA port so as long as its not ancient you should be fine.

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