Athlon 860k

[CatDaddy7818]

i am new to pc building and am going to be building one while black friday deals are going on. I am looking at getting an 860k because my budget is tight. I found an gigabyte r9 270x for a good price but i am not sure if this cpu would bottleneck that graphics card. If so would a fx-6300 or possibly (if i could get enough money together) an fx-8320 be better. Thanks. Also i didn't list any intel cpu's because they are out of my price range unless you have other options. i am open to suggestions. I will mostly just be using for games and other everyday task.

[Deletive]

Get the 860k and 270x... it'll not bottleneck.

[JoaoPRSousa]

The 860k will not bottleneck a 270X. And it is fine for everyday use. My 760k behaves just fine

[i_build_nanosuits]

the 860k is a very good budget cpu and you could pair it with a gpu as strong as an r9 280 easily...

the 860k plays most modern games better than an overclocked pentium (i say that because i know its only

a matter of time before someone suggest you buy that instead, just don't!)

if you play mostly mmo's and rts then the pentium is better at running those..

[Clyne]

the 860k is a very good budget cpu and you could pair it with a gpu as strong as an r9 280 easily...

the 860k plays most modern games better than an overclocked pentium (i say that because i know its only

a matter of time before someone suggest you buy that instead, just don't!)

if you play mostly mmo's and rts then the pentium is better at running those..

and new AAA games are starting to use 4 cores too.......

[i_build_nanosuits]

and new AAA games are starting to use 4 cores too.......

they pretty much all use 4 threads or more nowadays and from my experience and from other llt members experience as well the pentium stutters a lot with a lot of hitching and variances in frametimes even when highly overclocked...making many games unplayable on high settings.

[Aniallation]

i am new to pc building and am going to be building one while black friday deals are going on. I am looking at getting an 860k because my budget is tight. I found an gigabyte r9 270x for a good price but i am not sure if this cpu would bottleneck that graphics card. If so would a fx-6300 or possibly (if i could get enough money together) an fx-8320 be better. Thanks. Also i didn't list any intel cpu's because they are out of my price range unless you have other options. i am open to suggestions. I will mostly just be using for games and other everyday task.

The FX CPUs would possibly benefit you in the long run because games are starting to use more cores. However keep in mind if you go for FX not only are the CPUs more expensive, but so are the motherboards.

[Aniallation]

they pretty much all use 4 threads or more nowadays and from my experience and from other llt members experience as well the pentium stutters a lot with a lot of hitching and variances in frametimes even when highly overclocked...making many games unplayable on high settings.

Another reason I don't bandwagon. I almost fell for getting the G3258 but didn't and if I did I'd be fucked 

[i_build_nanosuits]

The FX CPUs would possibly benefit you in the long run because games are starting to use more cores. However keep in mind if you go for FX not only are the CPUs more expensive, but so are the motherboards.

...from the informations ive gathered the IPC went up significantly on the atlhon 860k and it plays most games as well as an FX6300...but your suggestion is a good one but if the budget allow for a more expensive motherboard and cpu i would suggest a cote i3 and cheap h81 board instead.

[Aniallation]

...from the informations ive gathered the IPC went up significantly on the atlhon 860k and it plays most games as well as an FX6300...but your suggestion is a good one but if the budget allow for a more expensive motherboard and cpu i would suggest a cote i3 and cheap h81 board instead.

Yeah, depending on the location, i3 or FX6 could be a better option but that would largely depend on local pricing. Here in Canada FX6 definitely takes it.

[CatDaddy7818]

ok thanks for the replies. Here is another question. Is the 860k much of an upgrade over the 760k

[i_build_nanosuits]

ok thanks for the replies. Here is another question. Is the 860k much of an upgrade over the 760k

no, but if you have no cpu yet, the 860k is worth the extra bucks

...but its not worth upgrading from one to the other.

[CatDaddy7818]

OK i appreciate all the help

[ForsakenLive]

ok thanks for the replies. Here is another question. Is the 860k much of an upgrade over the 760k

It's not a massive difference, but it's worth the extra bucks without a doubt. Get a low end FM2+ mobo and you'll be fine.

[Opcode]

i am new to pc building and am going to be building one while black friday deals are going on. I am looking at getting an 860k because my budget is tight. I found an gigabyte r9 270x for a good price but i am not sure if this cpu would bottleneck that graphics card. If so would a fx-6300 or possibly (if i could get enough money together) an fx-8320 be better. Thanks. Also i didn't list any intel cpu's because they are out of my price range unless you have other options. i am open to suggestions. I will mostly just be using for games and other everyday task.

The 860k will not bottleneck a R9 270x. I have a HD 5870 that gets pushed to 99% in BF3 with my 6800k and that's with the cores only at roughly 60-80% usage.

 

ok thanks for the replies. Here is another question. Is the 860k much of an upgrade over the 760k

 

no, but if you have no cpu yet, the 860k is worth the extra bucks

...but its not worth upgrading from one to the other.

It is a decent upgrade, IPC increased nearly 11% with Steamroller. The 860k is only clocked 100 MHz slower on the base and boost frequencies. So even at stock clocks it's faster than the 760k.