Can I combine an AMD A4-5300 APU with an ASUS DUAL-GTX1060-O6GB

[jenc72]

Current specs:
AMD A4-5300 3.40GHz DUAL CORE (Socket FM2) APU
ATI Radeon HD 7480

MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE GA-F2A68HM-DS2H

My questions are: should i buy a new processor?
is there a problem if i combine the amd a4 with the gtx 1060?

thanks for your help!

 

[CRO5513Y]

You can use the A4-5300 with it but i would strongly suggest an upgrade if you want to grab a GTX 1060. That CPU will hold it back in almost any modern game and just about any modern GPU for that matter. An i5 7xxx or R5 1400/1500 would be a good pairing with a GTX 1060 but they both need a new Motherboard and DDR4 RAM. If that is out of your budget I would look at perhaps an RX 470 4GB + CPU upgrade to Pentium G4560, B250 Motherboard and 8GB DDR4. That should come up to around the GTX 1060 6GB's price new so you get a stronger GPU along with CPU. Hope this helps

 

[jenc72]

thanks for your help !!!!
another question: Does the i5 7400 fit on these motherboards?
GIGABYTE GA-H81M-DS2 3.0 2xDDR3 PCI-E 2xUSB3 LPT Socket 1150
GIGABYTE GA-B85M-DS3H-A 4xDDR3 PCI-E 2xUSB3 HDMI Socket 1150

 

[CRO5513Y]

thanks for your help !!!!
another question: Does the i5 7400 fit on these motherboards?
GIGABYTE GA-H81M-DS2 3.0 2xDDR3 PCI-E 2xUSB3 LPT Socket 1150
GIGABYTE GA-B85M-DS3H-A 4xDDR3 PCI-E 2xUSB3 HDMI Socket 1150

No, you need a B250 or H270 Motherboard (Socket 1151). Z270 is also usable but not what you should be looking at on that CPU. Here is the cheapest Motherboard on PCPP with 4 RAM slots (what i would recommend for future upgrades). > https://pcpartpicker.com/product/qjs8TW/msi-b250m-pro-vdh-micro-atx-lga1151-motherboard-b250m-pro-vdh

 

[jenc72]

thank you
so it doesnt matter if the gtx is DDR5 and the motherboard is ddr4 or ddr3 ?

 

[CRO5513Y]

thank you
so it doesnt matter if the gtx is DDR5 and the motherboard is ddr4 or ddr3 ?

No they are 2 different entities, the type of Video RAM the Graphics Card uses is irrelevant of the type of RAM the Motherboard accepts for the CPU. It'll be just fine.

 

[jenc72]

one last question:
if amd processors and radeon rx work together using both videocards, intel and nvidia work together as well?

 

[CRO5513Y]

one last question:
if amd processors and radeon rx works together using both videocards, intel and nvidia work together as well?

They are all independent of each other in that sense, you can mismatch whatever you want. Intel/Nvidia, AMD/Nvidia, Intel/AMD, AMD/AMD all will work together without issues. Just for reference, i am using an Intel CPU and AMD GPU together right now.