The graphics card will give you a much bigger bump in far more games than the APU will. There are a few games that will suffer on the cpu side from his current cpu but there are far more that will suffer on the GPU side from using an APU. And most of the cpu heavy PC games would run like shit on either system since they also need a strong GPU.
CPU bottlenecks in all but a few modern PC games are grossly exaggerated by the PC gaming community as part of an ongoing pissing war over who has the better hardware. I would much rather see him upgrade the GPU and PSU now. And the mobo, cpu, and cooler later on down the line.
CPU bottlenecks in all but a few modern PC games are grossly exaggerated by the PC gaming community as part of an ongoing pissing war over who has the better hardware. I would much rather see him upgrade the GPU and PSU now. And the mobo, cpu, and cooler later on down the line.
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-Mark Antony