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Usually amazing deals and handy comparison button. In terms of cost, AMD is great at APUs and multicore threading. Good for modern games. I played Arma II easy on an AMD 8 5600K. Arma III looked fantastic still, but getting into helicopters the draw distance necessary to fly kinda kills the best graphic setting to basic because Arma draws 10s of kilometers in detail. A bit of a CPU hog. Regardless the A8 is the best value for the buck and can be OC'd if you build a good cooling system. Would highly recommend Cooler Master products. The only reason I maxxed my board to an A10 was for a better APU gfx chip so I could run Action separate from my CPU/GPU
That being said the A8 while a great budget chipset, is based on a socket FM 2 board, they are now on FM 3+. Also, if APUs don't matter and are looking for a strict CPU with a dedicated card. I would recommend, if affordable, looking at Intel. They have phenomenal single core processing power (useful for older games like WB) and the market general speaking seams to build their software to Intel standards so things usually gel together right out of the box.
Knowing what CPU you want to run will dictate what else to use. If you want to run the A-8, I have one I can give to you for less than the asking value online.
<S> Zinhwk
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Windows 10.1 AMD A10 6800K Black Edition (OC 4.2Ghz) 16 GB DDR3 GeForce GTX 770Ti 1TB SATA Western Digital "Blue" HDD 24" LG LED 1080p CH Controls
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