PC Upgrades (new processor or graphics card)?

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My pc hasn't been preforming very well with gaming which is what i use it for . I was looking for a new processor or graphics card that wouldn't be bottlenecked by the 6 core apu. Can i disable the intergraded graphics and buy a graphics card.

Here are the specs. http://austinnotduncan.com/builds/proton/
 
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I have to agree with that statement. When people purchase new systems I tend to steer them towards Intel because Intel has a winning product in every budget segment. This isn't the case when people already own an AMD system. Your system sports the best AMD has to offer in a processor. Its Kaveri cores are not too far behind Intel's own Haswell cores in terms of efficiency and performance as can be seen in the comparison bellow by CPUboss.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i3-4130-vs-AMD-A10-7700K

The A10 has a 30% lower single performance core performance than the i3, but it does have one major advantage. The 7770k is one of the most user friendly chips to overclock. A fairly inexpensive aftermarket cooler (linked bellow) and a few...