AMD CPU swap

[Commandershell]

I currently have an AMD Athlon X2 370k Richland processor, I am considering swapping to a AMD Athlon X4 750k Trinity processor.  

What sort of performance increase should I expect? Is it worth the hassle to swap?

I play games such as battlefield 4 and dota 2.

 

My current build:

- AMD Athlon X2 370K Richland 4.0GHz Socket FM2 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor 

 

- CORSAIR CXM series CX750M 750W ATX12V  - GIGABYTE GA-G1.Sniper A88X FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

 

- CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory  x2

[TechFan@ic]

Depending on the game and your graphics card, about 0-80% better performance.

[MbV93]

A Quad Core would help a lot! Especially with Battlefield, I'd do it unless you want to wait a bit and see what Kaveri has to offer, I see you have an FM2+ mobo.

[TheSLSAMG]

You forgot the most important part. Graphics card.

[Commandershell]

You forgot the most important part. Graphics card.

My bad, I completely forgot about that.  Its a ASUS AMD RADEON 7770 ghz 2gb gddr5

[TheSLSAMG]

My bad, I completely forgot about that.  Its a ASUS AMD RADEON 7770 ghz 2gb gddr5

Yes, it will improve the performance.

[Commandershell]

A Quad Core would help a lot! Especially with Battlefield, I'd do it unless you want to wait a bit and see what Kaveri has to offer, I see you have an FM2+ mobo.

I thought Kaveri was an APU.  From my understanding APUs are slower than regular CPUs

[Flyguygamer]

I thought Kaveri was an APU.  From my understanding APUs are slower than regular CPUs

No, they are a regular cpu with a decent integrated gpu. The top of the line can play BF4.

[MbV93]

I thought Kaveri was an APU.  From my understanding APUs are slower than regular CPUs

 

No, APUs are CPUs, it's just a term AMD uses to put focus on its more powerful graphics than the competition's (intel) every Intel CPU is an APU as well because they have integrated graphics, it is just a marketing term from AMD. Your Athlon X2 is nothing but an A6 dual core APU with its graphics disabled.

[Jvagle875]

I would wait and see the if/what the kaveri cpu is. Athlon 770k? I think the slated release date is next week.

[Commandershell]

Perfect, so if I buy an APU I can just disable the integrated gpu and use my own right?

[NannerBeans]

Perfect, so if I buy an APU I can just disable the integrated gpu and use my own right?

 

It's automatic. You don't have to do anything. Your monitor will use whatever it is connected to. 

[Commandershell]

Okay thanks