Help choose between these Processor

[Fr4xtal]

in my country we have and two cpu which is equally priced AMD A8 5600K and AMD Athlon X4 750K which is better for gaming?

 

[CTurbo]

If you are going to use a video card, get the 750k
If you are not going to use a video card, get the 5600k


Simple as that

 

[Rationale]

They actually perform about the same, so I would recommend the Athlon X4 750K for the sake of efficiency. That's assuming you plan to get a video card as well, ofc.

If you're not getting a video card, then the A8 5600K would be better.

 

[Snowplane77]

Both are decent processors but it depends on what you plan on doing with it. If you want to use the A8's onboard graphics then I would get the apu. If you plan on installing another graphics card then I would get the athlon. If you plan on overclocking either of these I would strongly recommend an aftermarket cooler like the coolermaster hyper 212 evo. If you plan on using the apu's graphics alone then I would also recommend some nice and fast ram since integrated graphics use the system ram and benefit from the extra speed, graphics cards have their own ram so the extra speed would not be necessary.

 

[Fr4xtal]

thanks everbody im gonna take the athlon 😀 cheers and one thing will i get higher performance if i use the R9 270 or X edition over the GTX 760?

 

[Mac266]

the GTX 760 is slightly faster and uses less power than the R9 270/x

 

[CTurbo]

The GTX760 is a bit faster than the R9 270x

 

[Fr4xtal]

With Mantle?

 

[CTurbo]

Mantle helps the cpu if the cpu needs the extra power.

 

[Fr4xtal]

i see a guy name JayzTwoCent on his PC build with A10 7850K n R9 270 running with mantle at 80fps

 

[CTurbo]

Is he running dual graphics? What resolution is he gaming on?


The 760 is still a little faster than the 270x no matter what. That doesn't mean the 270x is not any good.

 

[Fr4xtal]

1080p n no dual graphics