I recently bought an a6-3670k and a cheapo 60 dollar motherboard to act as a media, work storage box , and maybe used for some simple gaming. So I started to benchmark it for fun and games like Rage, Diablo 3, Mass Effect 2 all run beautifully at 1280x720p. My few year old plasma doesnt go all the way to 1080p anyway, so that is fine. I was quite surprised at the speed. The GPU is similar in terms of performance to the 8800gt, but it has the added bonus of direct x11. This means that all games that were made for xbox ( assassins creed, mass effect ) play just fine on these chips.