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AMD 6800k upgrade

Soldato
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A buddy of mine has an AMD 6800k and is looking to upgrade his PC over the next couple of months.

I don't know anything about AMD CPU's at all so I don't know how this chip is going to fair in the mix of things. He is going to be gaming and light video work for YouTube etc.

Now I've said upgrade to a 4690k and that'll be him sorted then but he's a bit short on money and cant really afford £200 for a CPU. I suggested that he could get a dual core Pentium K chip then upgrade that later. He's a bit unsure.

His current PC.

AMD A10-6800k,
8gb ram
No card because apu,
And a 300w crap psu.

He's getting:
Gigabyte 970,
8gb ram,
New psu.
An SSD

What would you guys say?
 
I didn't mean the 8gb, he's got 6GB. I thought 6gb would be okay but he wants new stuff i didn't even mention RAM to him.

How do the 6800k chips perform? I see they are a bit down from the i5 but would it still be okay or would it be bottlenecking the GPU?

Already got an SSD in the new parts.
 
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