Hd 7950 and A10 6800k

[RedBadRooster]

will the amd a10 6800k bottlenceck when paired with a Radeon Hd 7950? will overclocking the CPU lessen the bottleneck? and if the gpu will work, will the powercolor hd 7950 be a good one? there is one for $209 at microcenter right now. i can try to buy a new cooler for my cpu for oc'ing. i have an msi a75ma-e35 mobo, 8 gb 2133 mhz dual channel ram, and 750 watt psu.

 

[Bad_Kitty13]

yes it will the apu's dont handle deicated cards as well as a regular cpu. even overclocking it will not be able to handle a 7950. at the most i would go 7850(or r series equivalent) or a 750ti.

 

[ak47jar3d]

No. Your chip should do just fine. Overclocking helps pretty much any chip if bottleneck is a problem. Noctua has an awesome fan cooler and I would go with that for cpu Overclocking. http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16835608041

 

[ykki]

rooster , dont belive people saying that the 6800k is a bad chip for dedicated gaming. it, is in fact, perfectly fine for 1080p gaming (with a dedicated gpu ofcourse). dont believe me? take a look at this
http://m.techspot.com/review/681-amd-a10-6800k-a4-4000/page7.html

 

[coozie7]

I'm running a 7950 off a i5 750 (OC 3.4GHz) with no problems and although the 'A' series may lack a little of the single core efficiency of the i5 its higher clockspeed should offset that.
One point about the 7950, several came with awful single fan coolers that were noisy and hot, avoid them.

 

[Bad_Kitty13]

i used to have a a8-3870k and it bottlenecked a 7790 i am speaking from experience. i had the igpu core disabled and all the voltage was going to its 4 cores and not the 4 cores and it still didnt get the performance out of a 7790. granted op has the newer apu but all that really changed was the igpu core advancements.

also bottlenecking is a subjective term. it means that the cpu cores will throttle the performance of the dedicated gpu. if you get a 7950 yes it will perform better than a 7850 but not by the performance gaps you would expect to see. so for example a 15-20 fps would look more like 5-7 if that...and isnt worth the extra money. my 7790 was getting about 10 fps than it was supposed to so i would expect this would scale as such up to a 7950

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6347/amd-a10-5800k-a8-5600k-review-trinity-on-the-desktop-part-2/6
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1726425/amd-a10-6800k-bottleneck-radeon-7950.html

an i5 lynnfield can still handle up to a 770 or 7950 with out a significant performance decrease because of the makeup of the cupu itself, it is like comparing apples to oranges. the apu's have no l3 cache like a fx/i5/i7 series