amd athlon2 x2 207 3.4 ghz and hd 6670 ddr3 vs amd a8 5600k without gpu

Blahman11

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Far Cry 3 uses the cores, so I'd go for the A8. The Athlon X2 will be bottlenecked badly. You can always add a GPU for hybrid Xfire later on. What is the point of having a better GPU (and only a slightly better GPU mind) when the CPU can't feed it with data?