GPU for AMD Athlon X4 860K (Not a gaming desktop)?

[NonTechSavvySheep]

I just want a GPU that has similar performance to integrated graphic cards.

This is completely low end budget desktop. I haven't decided the motherboard yet. Maybe you can help me once

 

[CountMike]

If You don't already have that CPU, you would be better off with an APU

 

[Ecky]

nVidia's GT720/730 would be equivalent to the iGPU, or maybe the newer GT1030. I agree with CountMike though, because a GT720 + 860K is almost twice as expensive as an equivalent A8 APU, and will also likely draw more power and make more noise.

 

[NonTechSavvySheep]

nVidia's GT720/730 would be equivalent to the iGPU, or maybe the newer GT1030. I agree with CountMike though, because a GT720 + 860K is almost twice as expensive as an equivalent A8 APU, and will also likely draw more power and make more noise.

Okay, is it overkill to pair it with GT 1030. I only need GPU strictly to display graphics on monitor. nothing fancy. Any radeon is okay for me. Do you have any reference for Radeon HD?

How about this one?
XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3 HYPER MEMORY 2.8GB - ON-XFX1-PLS2 - Support Low Profile[Search] Rp 390,000
Is it better than Nvidia GT 710?

Colorful nVidia GT 710 1GB DDR3 - Grs 2 Thn[Search] Rp 375,000

the other reason to choose AMD is because the motherboard is cheaper, and buying something a few years back is cheaper for me. I believe when AMD release this processor, it was at the time when AMD do better than intel before Intel release Core i series.

 

[NonTechSavvySheep]

If You don't already have that CPU, you would be better off with an APU

Which APU would you recommend? how about the motherboard?

 

[Ecky]

I do not recommend the HD 5450, because it doesn't have many of the features a modern GPU has, such as the ability to hardware accelerate most of the media that exists now - it was released in 2010. You may find that you have high CPU usage or even choppiness when doing things like playing YouTube videos. It is also discontinued and doesn't receive and new drivers, so you're going to have issues there. NV's GT 710 is a better choice, but in absolute terms I believe it's slower/worse than the integrated GPUs in something like an A8.

If you don't already have an FM2+ motherboard or Athlon x4 860K CPU, do not buy them. A slightly better choice would be an FM2+ board and any AMD APU labeled A8, A10 6xxx or 7xxx, because they have capable integrated graphics. Even better would be an Intel 1151 motherboard (H110 or B250) and a Pentium G4560. It's cheaper than an 860K, is very significantly faster, draws a fraction of the power and has integrated video capable of accelerating all modern media.

EDIT: When the Athlon x4 860K came out, Intel's Core i series had already been out for around 5 years.

 

[DSzymborski]

nVidia's GT720/730 would be equivalent to the iGPU, or maybe the newer GT1030. I agree with CountMike though, because a GT720 + 860K is almost twice as expensive as an equivalent A8 APU, and will also likely draw more power and make more noise.

Okay, is it overkill to pair it with GT 1030. I only need GPU strictly to display graphics on monitor. nothing fancy. Any radeon is okay for me. Do you have any reference for Radeon HD?

How about this one?
XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3 HYPER MEMORY 2.8GB - ON-XFX1-PLS2 - Support Low Profile[Search] Rp 390,000
Is it better than Nvidia GT 710?

Colorful nVidia GT 710 1GB DDR3 - Grs 2 Thn[Search] Rp 375,000

the other reason to choose AMD is because the motherboard is cheaper, and buying something a few years back is cheaper for me. I believe when AMD release this processor, it was at the time when AMD do better than intel before Intel release Core i series.

A Kaby Lake Pentium would be a much better purchase as it's faster than an 860k you don't need to buy a discrete GPU as the HD 610 integrated is a lot faster than a 5450 and roughly equivalent to a GT 710.

An 860K is not a pre-Core CPU, it was released in 2014. That time period was the nadir of AMD's competitiveness, not its apogee.

 

[NonTechSavvySheep]

I do not recommend the HD 5450, because it doesn't have many of the features a modern GPU has, such as the ability to hardware accelerate most of the media that exists now - it was released in 2010. You may find that you have high CPU usage or even choppiness when doing things like playing YouTube videos. It is also discontinued and doesn't receive and new drivers, so you're going to have issues there. NV's GT 710 is a better choice, but in absolute terms I believe it's slower/worse than the integrated GPUs in something like an A8.

If you don't already have an FM2+ motherboard or Athlon x4 860K CPU, do not buy them. A slightly better choice would be an FM2+ board and any AMD APU labeled A8, A10 6xxx or 7xxx, because they have capable integrated graphics. Even better would be an Intel 1151 motherboard (H110 or B250) and a Pentium G4560. It's cheaper than an 860K, is very significantly faster, draws a fraction of the power and has integrated video capable of accelerating all modern media.

EDIT: When the Athlon x4 860K came out, Intel's Core i series had already been out for around 5 years.

One last thing, So my choice is limited to A8 or Pentium G4560. Somehow I still need quad core even for the budget desktop. When I download video with FreeMake Video Downloader, it takes time to convert the video into MP4 after downloading. So I thought that quad core might do better for video conversion. In this case, I can't afford i5 processors. I'll comeback to you when I have the exact total of Pentium G4560 + or AMD A8.

when I checked A10 it was about the same price between HD 5450+ X4 860K.
Okay, I will take a look at it. Can you recommend any cheap motherboard for A8?

if I choose Pentium G4560, I might have to use H110M motherboard or B 250 (which is a bit more expensive)

 

[DSzymborski]

I do not recommend the HD 5450, because it doesn't have many of the features a modern GPU has, such as the ability to hardware accelerate most of the media that exists now - it was released in 2010. You may find that you have high CPU usage or even choppiness when doing things like playing YouTube videos. It is also discontinued and doesn't receive and new drivers, so you're going to have issues there. NV's GT 710 is a better choice, but in absolute terms I believe it's slower/worse than the integrated GPUs in something like an A8.

If you don't already have an FM2+ motherboard or Athlon x4 860K CPU, do not buy them. A slightly better choice would be an FM2+ board and any AMD APU labeled A8, A10 6xxx or 7xxx, because they have capable integrated graphics. Even better would be an Intel 1151 motherboard (H110 or B250) and a Pentium G4560. It's cheaper than an 860K, is very significantly faster, draws a fraction of the power and has integrated video capable of accelerating all modern media.

EDIT: When the Athlon x4 860K came out, Intel's Core i series had already been out for around 5 years.

One last thing, So my choice is limited to A8 or Pentium G4560. Somehow I still need quad core even for the budget desktop. When I download video with FreeMake Video Downloader, it takes time to convert the video into MP4 after downloading. So I thought that quad core might do better for video conversion. In this case, I can't afford i5 processors. I'll comeback to you when I have the exact total of Pentium G4560 + or AMD A8.

when I checked A10 it was about the same price between HD 5450+ X4 860K.
Okay, I will take a look at it. Can you recommend any cheap motherboard for A8?

if I choose Pentium G4560, I might have to use H110M motherboard or B 250 (which is a bit more expensive)

Generally about $10 more for the same quality (you ought to get a 250 without owning a Skylake to update the BIOS). Easily worth it, a Pentium is far better than your other choices here. And we haven't even addressed the benefit of being on a platform you could actually upgrade someday, which you're not with an FM2+.

 

[Ecky]

Each of the Pentium's cores is close to twice as fast as AMD's, and it has hyperthreading on top of that, so it call also handle 4 threads like any other quad core.

 

[NonTechSavvySheep]

Okay, I guess I will stick with Pentium G4560. I don't even need to buy a dedicated graphics card.

 

[DSzymborski]

Okay, I guess I will stick with Pentium G4560. I don't even need to buy a dedicated graphics card.

It's easily the best Pentium, quality-wise, since the Pentium's heyday in the late 90s/early 00s . The Kaby Lake ones have hyperthreading enabled, which makes them two-core/four-thread CPUs. That's a big help for productivity applications and for games that really don't like dual-cores.

 

[NonTechSavvySheep]

Okay, I guess I will stick with Pentium G4560. I don't even need to buy a dedicated graphics card.

It's easily the best Pentium, quality-wise, since the Pentium's heyday in the late 90s/early 00s . The Kaby Lake ones have hyperthreading enabled, which makes them two-core/four-thread CPUs. That's a big help for productivity applications and for games that really don't like dual-cores.

Yeah. I also read a lot about this Pentium G4560. This one is like i3 with slightly less clock speed and a bit worse integrated graphics card than i3 6100.

 

[DSzymborski]

Okay, I guess I will stick with Pentium G4560. I don't even need to buy a dedicated graphics card.

It's easily the best Pentium, quality-wise, since the Pentium's heyday in the late 90s/early 00s . The Kaby Lake ones have hyperthreading enabled, which makes them two-core/four-thread CPUs. That's a big help for productivity applications and for games that really don't like dual-cores.

Yeah. I also read a lot about this Pentium G4560. This one is like i3 with slightly less clock speed and a bit worse integrated graphics card than i3 6100.

Yup, we recommend it for a ton of budget rigs. It's a very nice little CPU, with some of the best pricing you'll ever see from Intel.