Best CPU to match my R9 270X

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Guys please suggest me the best processors under 200$ which will eventually give the max output for my R9 270X !

And please tell me, which is the minimum processor,which should not botteneck my 270x ! I think my athlon II X2 260 is pissing my 270X off :bounce: lol !

Suggest me 5 cpus please ! and is the i3-4130 a bad choice ? and what about the i5-4570 & 4670k ? FX-6300 ? I'm really confused !

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Thankx for bothering to answer my question !
 
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for the 270x if you really can't pay for an unlocked i5 setup the fx8320 would do well, you'd bottleneck from the gpu before cpu most likely. It's a rebranded hd7870 and while decent for 1080p, it would never max out demanding stuff to begin with, probably play stuff decently on high settings though. Remember to get a good 990fx motherboard like an Asus one. DON'T cheap out on the motherboard....we've had many people come to this forum crying about their CPU being throttled due to sucky motherboards with no VRM heatsinks and bad power phases....

at the least get the Asus 970 r2.0 mobo (Not the LE version, it doesn't have VRM heatsink) but then you're losing SLI/Crossfire with 970chipset
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Yes, the Athlon II x2 260 is weak for the R9 270X, you will need something better
Best bang for buck are the FX 6300 at $100 and FX 8320 at $150
As for the Intel CPUs , the cheapest i5 at the moment is $180, and that is i5 4430

Both AMD and Intel mentioned above will be more than enough for the R9 270X
 
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for the 270x if you really can't pay for an unlocked i5 setup the fx8320 would do well, you'd bottleneck from the gpu before cpu most likely. It's a rebranded hd7870 and while decent for 1080p, it would never max out demanding stuff to begin with, probably play stuff decently on high settings though. Remember to get a good 990fx motherboard like an Asus one. DON'T cheap out on the motherboard....we've had many people come to this forum crying about their CPU being throttled due to sucky motherboards with no VRM heatsinks and bad power phases....

at the least get the Asus 970 r2.0 mobo (Not the LE version, it doesn't have VRM heatsink) but then you're losing SLI/Crossfire with 970chipset
 
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Hmm, thank you sir ! :sarcastic:


but what if I get a Phenom II X6 cpu ? as I have an AM3 mobo ? Will that be bad ? As I'm low on cash, but not for long ! 😀 I'm just wondering !

I'm planning to buy the new i5 cpus which are gonna be released sooner ! :lol:
 
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From experience the phenom 1090t is a great chip and was a good overclocker consistant great performance at 4ghz loved that cpu
 
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Thankx WhiteSnake1 !

I managed to find brand new ones of 1075T and 1090T but the 1090T is overpriced ! ! 1075T for 160$ and I dont have to change my mobo !

Question is, Mr.CPU expert, will it ge bottlenecks ? I don't trust AMD anymore ! I saw my friend getting better performance with his 580 on his dual core E5400 than my rig ! Pathetic !! :bounce:


I'm just a bit curious ! I will go for an i5 ! I promise ! 😛
 
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a little but not too bad, the 1090t and 1100t Phenom x6 were really good cpu and still hold up today, yours is just a little lower clocked than theirs 😛 if you wanted to and if your power supply and mobo could handle it, you can try to overclock your Phenom x6 a little to squeeze some more out of it, might need a cpu cooler though but I'm sure it wouldn't kill it using the stock cooler for a small bump
 
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WhiteSnake sir,

what about the rumours for the new unlocked. Haswell Pentium ?? and when will the current intel i5 4th gen cpus get a price cut? and i3 4130 is a poor performer ? or budget friendly??? I saw this was on the list of gaming cpus. under low budget
 
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keep your Phenom x6 until you can save up for an unlocked i5 cpu and motherboard, I think the days of a highly clocked dual core are in the past, a pentium/i3 now days will max out older stuff already and I doubt even a highly clocked pentium would play BF4 well at all.

On youtube I've seen vids of people playing bf4 multiplayer with an i3 cpu however and getting in the 40s fps wise.

The i5 would be the only jump you'd notice from what you have right now, unless you just really want to stay at AMD, then I'd suggest the fx 8320 8 core cpu
 
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WhiteSnake91,


Sorry to bug u a bit further, a friend of mine tell me that a cheap yet effective FX-6300, wen overclocked, wud outperform some i5 moderate cpus, is that correct ? and are the rumours true that AMD won't release any FX cpus ever ? :ouch:

FX-8350 is a stunner for the bucks !

Thankx for bothering you ! All of you ! Appreciate your help ! And thankx Tom's Hardware and all the members ! You guys are real HELP ! :ange:
 
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AMD appears to just be focusing on APU's now, alot of people were mad and thought Steamroller was coming to AM3+ and then it didn't. I think the future will be APU's though, eventually newer APU's will be able to play stuff on 1080p well instead of just 720p on low settings like my bro had to do with his A10-5800K built in graphics.

I know it's a little older but as a test I played Crysis 2 maxed out on my bro's pc yesterday (he has added gtx 660ti gpu to it) and it played well, over time I'm going to test more games on it)

AMD isn't as bad as the internet makes it out to be, the i5 is still better than the fx6300, the main selling point of the fx6300 being that it's a piledriver 6 core cpu around $100 😛

My original choice of cpu when I built my pc a year and a half ago was to go with the 8 core fx8350 but people online overwhelmingly said it sucked compared to the i5, coming from a sucky single core laptop I didn't want to get an AMD and it not be what I wanted, and then end up just having to buy intel anyway.


I eventually do want to get an AMD system personally and test it, it's probably going to be fx8320 and just overclock it to 8350 levels, or see how it can do at stock, or the fx6300 or fx6350.

the Athlon x4 750k which is essentially my bro's cpu just without built in graphics is often recommended in Tom's Hardware as the best cpu for 1080p gaming on a budget too
 
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No thank you for the 750k ! an i5 is the prime choice ! Thank you ! For GAMING PERFORMANCE, Intel is worth the penny ! isn't it ? 😀
 
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Actually since his CPU is bottle-necking his GPU, getting a new GPU will make it way worse.
 
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If he is going for a 270x, the gpu will bottleneck the i5. Thus, a waste of money.

OC'ed 860k/4300/6300 is the best cost-performance cpu for a 270x/280

i5 is a better CPU, just not when it is bottlenecked by a GPU. The i3 would have even been better.

At this level of a GPU (anything lesser than 280), an i7, i5, i3 would have performed within 10% of avg FPS.
 
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