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Planning to buy a new gpu

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Sorry for the noob question.

 

I got an A8 5600k APU and a AMD Radeon HD 6570 GPU (Bad setup, I know). I am planning to upgrade to an MSI R9 270X GPU.

 

The question is: Will the GPU work well with an A series AMD CPU or should I upgrade to a FX series CPU?

 

Thanks ;)

 

UPDATE: Will a GPU with PCIe 3.0 work well with a 2.0 slot?

 

 

 

PS: I'm new here.

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An APU and 270X will work just as fine as a CPU (FX) with a 270x. You'll not notice anything.

 

And welcome to the forums :)

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Better get an I5/G3258. I have a A6-6400K and my 270 is bottlenecking. 

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An APU and 270X will work just as fine as a CPU (FX) with a 270x. You'll not notice anything.

 

And welcome to the forums :)

Thanks, man :)

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Sorry for the noob question.

 

I got an A8 5600k CPU and a AMD Radeo HD 6570 GPU (Bad setup, I know). I am planning to upgrade to an MSI R9 270X GPU.

 

The question is: Will the GPU work well with an A series AMD CPU or should I upgrade to a FX series CPU?

 

Thanks ;)

 

PS: I'n new here.

Yes your new gpu will work with your APU. If you are just gaming it should be fine. The amount of money it will take to upgrade to the FX platform will not out way the performance gained.

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just grab that gpu for now unless you got a huge budget for a whole new pc.

 

then save up some cash along the days,weeks,months or an entire year and go totally nuts on a new rig.

Live your life like a dream.

 
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The APU should work fine with the GPU, but you won't be able to utilize dual graphics mode. I would upgrade to an FX series, but do it later, it isn't a required upgrade.  Also a PCIe 3.0 card will work fine with PCIe 2.0, it will just run a little slower.

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PCIe 2.0 x16 will still offer more bandwidth than the card you want needs (or in fact most if not all cards)

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a PCIe 2.0 x16 is way more then fine heck a x8 would be fine too and regarding upgrading the cpu never really do it unless you see the gpu bottlenecking wich is kinda hard to get 

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its gonna work fine

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