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Okay, so I have an AMD fm2 mobo (Asus F2A55M to be exact) with a 6700 APU with a R9 270x. I am looking to upgrade the furthest I can, and I am stuck going between the AMD 760k and the 6800k APU.

I would like to know which one the nice folks here at the LTT forums think I should get.

I can only do mild CPU overclocks due to power limits as well.

Thank you very much

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I'd get the AMD 760k since you don't really need an APU with an R9 270x.

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Personally I'd save / wait and get an i3/i5 in a few weeks / months, depending on your income stream.

Reasoning:  They're all Richland based quad cores ranging from 3.7 GHz to 4.1 GHz so for the money you'll be spending the minor improvement probably won't be worth it.

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you mean you made the mistake of getting an CPU with red on it. ;)

LOL

I love AMD to the moon and back, but they forgot about L3 cache when making my CPU; which other then that is great. Turbos to 4ghz, 4mb (L2 :'c) cache, decent on board GPU, 32nm lithography, unlocked, etc. etc. Without the L3 cache, though, it's really hard playing open world games. In GTA 5 for instance, with graphical settings turned up, and "CPU intensive" settings turned down, my CPU is at 95-100% work load, whilst my 280x is at around 50% load kinda just chilling.. hahaha

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you won't see much of a performance increase from anything on the fm2 socket to be honest. you'd be far better off setting that money aside and saving up for an i3 and a b85 motherboard. you'd have an upgrade path to a great performing cpu (i5 or i7) in the future as well.

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860k

 

That motherboard is FM2, not FM2+. Latest it can support is Richland, no Kaveri.

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The 760k and 6800k aren't much of an upgrade. If you lack power in the cpu department, save up for a platform upgrade like to lga 1150.

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