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AlexthePCgamer

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Hello, I'm new to PC gaming and decided to settle with these specifications, I'm mostly going to be playing Minecraft, Day-z, Terraria, Rust, and plenty more Indie games and occasionally bigger titles like Assassins Creed etc. All I need to know if this is a good way to start Thanks!
The specs:
-Processor=AMD A8-6500 APU (3.5 GHz, 4.1 with Turbo core 4mb cache, Quad Core)
-Operating System=Windows 8
-Hard drive=1TB
-Graphics Card=AMD Radeon HD 8570d
-RAM=6GB DDR3
-MotherBoard=A75 FCH Chipset
-Graphics Card Memory=1GB
 
AlexthePCgamer said:
Hello, I'm new to PC gaming and decided to settle with these specifications, I'm mostly going to be playing Minecraft, Day-z, Terraria, Rust, and plenty more Indie games and occasionally bigger titles like Assassins Creed etc. All I need to know if this is a good way to start Thanks!
The specs:
-Processor=AMD A8-6500 APU (3.5 GHz, 4.1 with Turbo core 4mb cache, Quad Core)
-Operating System=Windows 8
-Hard drive=1TB
-Graphics Card=AMD Radeon HD 8570d
-RAM=6GB DDR3
-MotherBoard=A75 FCH Chipset
-Graphics Card Memory=1GB
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Yeah that is fine! I would recommend to up the ram to 8GB in the future since that is becoming standard now.
 
Not too bad, confused as to why that PC has an APU as well as a dedicated GPU though. If you want a bit better, ditch the AMD CPU and go Intel, and 8GB RAM is a nice amount.
 
Styxie said:
Not too bad, confused as to why that PC has an APU as well as a dedicated GPU though. If you want a bit better, ditch the AMD CPU and go Intel, and 8GB RAM is a nice amount.
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Because depending on what gpu it is you can run dual graphics which results in a 5-10% boost in gaming but it is only compatible with the AMD 6670 2gb and down :)[DOUBLEPOST=1389738369,1389738224][/DOUBLEPOST]It's not bad but 8gb of RAM and maybe a better GPU like the 7770 or the 7850 or the r7 260x
Or for nvidia you could go witha 650 ,650ti , 650 ti boost or the 660 :)
But it just depends on what games you want to run if you want to run something like dota 2 or LoL you're pretty much set :D
 
JacobofArabia said:
Because depending on what gpu it is you can run dual graphics which results in a 5-10% boost in gaming but it is only compatible with the AMD 6670 2gb and down :)
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As far as I know, to run dual graphics you need two identical graphics cards in SLI. If you use two different GPU's.
Are you saying that you can use the APU with the GPU? I've never heard of that being possible, will look into it.
 
Styxie said:
As far as I know, to run dual graphics you need two identical graphics cards in SLI. If you use two different GPU's.
Are you saying that you can use the APU with the GPU? I've never heard of that being possible, will look into it.
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Yeah it is possible but it's a rare occurrence :)
You're on about Xfire and SLI which are way better alternatives than dual graphics :)
A guy on YT did a video on it his name is Nicolas11x12 he did a video a bit back about seeing if it was worthwhile :)
 
JacobofArabia said:
Yeah it is possible but it's a rare occurrence :)
You're on about Xfire and SLI which are way better alternatives than dual graphics :)
A guy on YT did a video on it his name is Nicolas11x12 he did a video a bit back about seeing if it was worthwhile :)
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Google didn't really show anything about it, but if possible that seems nice enough. Still, if you have a good enough GPU it ain't too useful. What's your budget?
 
It's decent depending on the price. If an APU is all you can squeeze out of your pocket, it will perform averagely. APUs are revolutionary for the time period (actually, not really), but for DayZ and Rust you may run into some scaling issues. It's not even the K version either, and that will definitely hinder performance. For Minecraft and everything else, it will be just fine, though. What I would do is go for an Intel Dual CORE CPU and get a nice GPU like the 7770 or 7790. The rest of the system doesn't need a change.

Are you buying this pre-built? Or is this a something you plan to build yourself?
 
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thedigblackbick said:
It's decent depending on the price. If an APU is all you can squeeze out of your pocket, it will perform averagely. APUs are revolutionary for the time period, but for DayZ and Rust you may run into some scaling issues. It's not even the K version either, and that will definitely hinder performance. For Minecraft and everything else, it will be just fine, though. What I would do is go for an Intel Dual CORE CPU and get a nice GPU like the 7770 or 7790. The rest of the system doesn't need a change.

Are you buying this pre-built? Or is this a something you plan to build yourself?
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All depends how much he has to spend! He hasnt told us yet :p
 
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