L3 cache importance for gaming

[S. K. William]

I am only planning to swap out my CPU, motherboard and RAM. My budget is approximately 240 USD, and I will be buying the parts from Hungary. This computer will be used for gaming, games like Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, Metro Last Light, etc. I will be keeping my Gigabyte Radeon HD 6750 OC graphics card, and my 22 inch monitor which runs at 1600x1050.

The CPU I am planning to buy is an AMD Athlon II X4 750K. I couldn't find too many reviews, only some discussions on some forums. In these discussions some people were saying that the lack of L3 cache is a significant disadvantage when gaming, and they were recommending the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition as a much better CPU.
The thing that got me thinking is not the fact that they suggested a different CPU, but the way they were insisting on the importance of the L3 cache.

 

[FloRolf]

I am only planning to swap out my CPU, motherboard and RAM. My budget is approximately 240 USD, and I will be buying the parts from Hungary. This computer will be used for gaming, games like Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, Metro Last Light, etc. I will be keeping my Gigabyte Radeon HD 6750 OC graphics card, and my 22 inch monitor which runs at 1600x1050.

The CPU I am planning to buy is an AMD Athlon II X4 750K. I couldn't find too many reviews, only some discussions on some forums. In these discussions some people were saying that the lack of L3 cache is a significant disadvantage when gaming, and they were recommending the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition as a much better CPU.

The thing that got me thinking is not the fact that they suggested a different CPU, but the way they were insisting on the importance of the L3 cache.

 

i think your low end gpu is the more restrictive thing for gaming in your built.

[S. K. William]

I am currently running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+, an Asus M2V-MX SE motherboard, with 4GB of DDR2, and the Gigabyte Radeon HD 6750 OC graphics card. I have two choices: get a new graphics card, or get a new CPU, motherboard and RAM, I can't do everything from this 240 USD budget. For this upgrade I will only be swapping out my CPU, motherboard and RAM, and at some point, possibly in autumn, I will also get a new graphics card. With my current configuration I won't benefit much from getting a new graphics card, since it will be bottlenecked by the rest of the system, this assumption was also backed up by people on this forum.