jesus christ man! your are going to cook the apu alive, pull that oc back a little, just get it under 1.5volts. otherwise it will live a very short life! and unless you are willing to upgrade the power supply, no. that gpu will cook it with that cpu espicially oc'ed. i would go for the crossfire option instead also what ram you running?
as your not running 1080p the cross fire option will do you fine.
what if put the cpu to 4.2 Ghz and kept at stock volts. what do think about the 7870 then.What about the 7850 good idea? don't want to do the crossfire want to get more power.
like i said mate just get it under 1.5v if you want to pult it back lower that's down to you, if anything run a stable oc at 1.4, thats perfectly safe territory.
well unfortunately going with the idea you got the most expensive motherboard for you apu, selling em both wouldnt quite cover the expense by itself to get a new mobo and cpu that would take full advantage of the gpu's your eyeing up, your gonna need to throw more personal dollar at it to make up the difference im afraid.
at this point i would flog your ram and get some stuff with some lower cas timming but at the same clock or higher if your motherboard takes the higer mhz stuff, and grab the the 6670 i believe it is for crossfire, dont quote me on the gpu but amd do have a refrence guide for apu crossfire, at the res your gammin at you would be suprised at the performance you will gain.
and for the rest of your dollar hold back a little while safe a bit more, and sell your parts when got a more sizeable fund to add it to. you wont regret it. dont forget new stuff is comming out soon-ish and that will mean prices on slightly older hardware will go down, look at my rig for example, i game on a 1280 by 1024 screen and i can everythng max and i mean max. yeah my rig is more powerful than what yours will be with my suggestions for now, but it's not exactly leagues ahead.
The CPU won't necessarily be the bottleneck if you are able to overclock it any above 4.0 GHz at less than 1.5V. Umm, it just isn't quite as ideal as the AM3+ options, so most people really wouldn't go out of their way to recommend it. Honestly it isn't an absolutely rubbish option, but even if you didn't overclock it, the APU would certainly be able to run with the Radeon HD 7870 XT, and it wouldn't really limit your card, but it wont perform quite as well as the FX series processors. A better option may be checking out the Dual Graphics option by pairing the APU with a Radeon HD 6670 and seeing how that works out. It's not a bad option, but I don't know how well it will perform at that resolution.
yea just overclocked to 4.2 at stock volts stock is like 1.3 volts.
also did you see the video.I want that! But if people say I should crossfire.......... I dont know what to do if you were me what would you do? I want to get the 7870 Beacause there on sale right now and know that will be upgrading in about 6/8 mounths
something worth noting about stock volts is that the preset auto-volting on motherboards is always too much, it's why overclockers always test for the lowest stable voltage at stock clock before oc'ing as they then have an idea of quality of the silicon of there cpu, that enables them to get the highest clock at the lowest voltage to reduce thermals and increase cpu lifespan, this also will also allow an overclocker to see what headroom they have to play with so once they are happy with an oc they can bump the volts up later on down the road to maintain that oc, as the silicon will eventually degrade and more volts is what is needed to remain stable at said overclock.
well the XFX HD Radeon 7870 Double D is a solid gpu, no doubts there. as for the amount of ram he's using, he needs it cause hes recording which is fine but in your case if your just gaming 8gb will suffice.
also the config your looking at for the future will require a slightly beefier psu, like a 600 just cause amd cards are power hungry little beasts, your cpu is ok as long as you dont overclock. i know im running a 550 but im using 95w cpu with an nvidia card and nvidia keplar cards are really energy efficient. something that should save you from a psu upgrade is going to a amd 6300 vishera, they are only $30 more and they are 95w cpu's and it will run on the motherboard you are looking at.
as for flogging your kit, if you can secure a deal at the right price then good on ya. just so ya know i was refereing to the motherboard you curently own and what you could fetch for it money wise to contribute to your next motherboard/cpu purchase not that you were planning to grab the best dang mobo money could get ya in the next build lol,if that was not too clearly comunicated i apologise. my input is just to merely keep your expectations down to earth on what your going to fetch for your kit that is all.
dont want to spend more on cpu because of the money and the cpu I picked is perfect for gaming I know the cpu you picked uses less power but is 30 bucks more and if want to get beter mobo more money so no thank you.How much do think I should spend on mobo I want to spend $100 on mobo is that ok?
yeah the motherboard is good, it will serve you fine. admitidly im still a tad concerned about your psu to be honest, if you want go with the phenom and slightly better motherboard aproach then cool but the only reason i personally see you wanting to do that is to oc your cpu, i just dont see your current psu living to long if you go this root even with out oc'ing and if money is tight the last thing you want is the psu to die on you and on top of that take another component with it, cause the odds are that is how it usally happens when they do go pop. it's your call man but iv warned you. also take a look at some of the other 7870 builds people on the site have recomended as the phenom and and 6300 get's reccomended alot with the 7870 and you will notice no one has reccomended a 500w psu with them full stop, in other words if you dont want to take my word for it take everyone elses man.