AMD Athlon II X4 750K any good for gaming?

[slovenlyjimmy]

Hi all,

Has anyone had any experience with the Athlon II X4 750K. At £55 it seems pretty cheap, and being unlocked should overclock quite well?

Given its price point I could pick up a X4 7500K and Radeon 7850 for £177 compared to an i3 3220 and Radeon 7700 for exactly the same price give or take a few pence?

I can't seem to find any reviews, but on paper it looks like a decent prospect especially with the potential to overclock that should be able to take it past the performance of the i3?

One thing to note, is that I'm building purely for gaming, the rig won't be doing anything else! I'm tight on budget, so trying to look at some inventive ways to get higher performance!

Would love your views and advice, is this a good idea or am I completely wrong?

 

[iBeInspire]

No L3 cache would worry me, but with overclocking you could go fast the i3 in gaming perofrmance... then agiain that would mean a better cooler, more heat, more power consumption...
If you're ok with buying a decent cooler and overclocking, go AMD, if you want to jus stick it in without any extras and have it work well, go Intel

 

[slovenlyjimmy]

No L3 cache would worry me, but with overclocking you could go fast the i3 in gaming perofrmance... then agiain that would mean a better cooler, more heat, more power consumption...
If you're ok with buying a decent cooler and overclocking, go AMD, if you want to jus stick it in without any extras and have it work well, go Intel

I've never overclocked before, mainly as I've never had anything other than a cheap off the shelf PC.

I wanted to build myself as much for the fun of doing it as it being cheaper. So the idea of playing around and overclocking is actually appealing. So happy to spend a few quid on some extra cooling.

What i wasn't sure about is how well the chip would preform as I can't seem to find any benchmark tests anywhere?

 

[s3ns3]

Its an amd trinity cpu its exactly like an A10-5800K but clocked 400Mhz lower and without a GPU.like u can see in the bench the A10 is slower then i3 so the 750K is even more.u can OC it yes to like 4.2 or donno but u need a hell of cooler and a good mobo.but in games not even with 4.2 it wont pass the i3 and the power consumption...it just don`t worth it.forget about it for gaming.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=677

 

[slovenlyjimmy]

Its an amd trinity cpu its exactly like an A10-5800K but clocked 400Mhz lower and without a GPU.like u can see in the bench the A10 is slower then i3 so the 750K is even more.u can OC it yes to like 4.2 or donno but u need a hell of cooler and a good mobo.but in games not even with 4.2 it wont pass the i3 and the power consumption...it just don`t worth it.forget about it for gaming.

Thanks mate, really useful.

Think I'll give that plan a miss.

Cheers

 

[SavageCupcake]

Id try and save for an i3 mate. You'll get far better performance.

 

[dragoonk]

Save for an i3 or get a FX-6300... personally I'd go with the AMD CPU, cause it costs about the same and beats every i3 out there. The Athlon isn't worth it and the X4's are not as overclockable as the x3's and x2's so you will probably won't gain much free performance.

 

[richardgal]

I would wait a few weeks until reviews show up. It's around the Pentium G860 in price, therefore should perform around the same. It may come down in price, if your budget is around that, definitely go for it.

If you want to have fun, grab a good cooler with it and start OC'ing. I've gone with an i3-2120 over a P II 965, it was cheaper without having to buy a cooler. It's awesome for the price, but then again, no fun of OCing and it SUCKS in GTA IV, which needs a quad-core to run smooth.