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why would you grab an unoverclockable chip? and the 7770 isnt a real big upgrade over a 6770.

Because getting a chip that can overclock will cost more $$. Which the OP has a small budget as it is. I mean... you could keep the 6770 and get overclockability out of your chip, but it really wont even be worth it with such a bad card.

The 7770 is a decent upgrade over a 6770. The 6770 performance is identical to the 5770 where the 7770's trades blows with a 6850.

With any upgrade to his chip, he is going to need a better GPU, I had a 5770 in the past and it was absolute trash, I wish I went with the 6850 from the start, I ended up selling it and upgrading to a GTX 570.

Also you barely need 4 cores for gaming, you will never need 6 with today's architecture.

True, but i dont think 6770-6850 is worth the upgrade. Buying new, yes 7770 or 6850 but as an upgrade, i dont think its enough. I just think that the pentium would be a waist of money cause youd upgrade again very soon.
    
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True, but i dont think 6770-6850 is worth the upgrade. Buying new, yes 7770 or 6850 but as an upgrade, i dont think its enough. I just think that the pentium would be a waist of money cause youd upgrade again very soon.

Why would you have to upgrade very soon? By the time he gets a GPU that will bottleneck it, his CPU will be outdated regardless. A Sandy Bridge Pentium is a VERY good entry level gaming chip. It offers excellent price/performance

It will offer equivalent single threaded performance that a slightly overclocked 960T would.
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But much lower multithreaded performance. If i dont know what someone does, i try balance single/multi threaded perforamamce. If hes a video editer, or even just a bf3 adect, he'll use the cores.
    
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But much lower multithreaded performance. If i dont know what someone does, i try balance single/multi threaded perforamamce. If hes a video editer, or even just a bf3 adect, he'll use the cores.

With gaming with a 6770 those extra cores will not matter. A majority of games, still will not utilize more than 2 cores. Window's may look like it does, because of load balancing but the truth is that must games will benefit more from a GPU or faster cores. Not more slower cores and worse GPU.
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But much lower multithreaded performance. If i dont know what someone does, i try balance single/multi threaded perforamamce. If hes a video editer, or even just a bf3 adect, he'll use the cores.

With gaming with a 6770 those extra cores will not matter. A majority of games, still will not utilize more than 2 cores. Window's may look like it does, because of load balancing but the truth is that must games will benefit more from a GPU or faster cores. Not more slower cores and worse GPU.

true, but did he ever say this is a pure gaming rig? if it is, your right. but i dont think we can just assume right off the bat its a gaming only pc.
    
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true, but did he ever say this is a pure gaming rig? if it is, your right. but i dont think we can just assume right off the bat its a gaming only pc.
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I have roughly $300
Im looking to get an upgrade bundle for my pc CPU,mobo,and ram
Right now anything is probably better then my current athlon 64 x2 lol
I'm pretty sure I wanna go with intel, but with my tight budget would AMD be more suitable?
I wanna be able to play my games with stable fps and on decent settings. My gpu is a HD 6770.

That is where the assumption of a gaming rig comes in.
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Well want a system that will have a good upgrade path. I'm not really worried about a gpu right now because I will probably be upgrading it later this year anyway.
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anymore suggestions? Should I just wait and save up for an i5? If so what i5 should I aim for?
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