New Athlon chips?

[GeorgeStorm]

Hey,
As above, I'm intending on changing my current setup (e3-1240, msi matx board) to a mitx setup, and I'm tempted to switch to AMD.
Regardless of what new setup I go for I'll most likely be getting a lower performance cpu, since I don't want to spend ?150+ on the cpu.

As a result, I've been looking at the 760/750k, since they look like they will be fun to clock a bit, and provide enough performance, since I don't do anything crazy cpu intensive (lightroom is probably the heaviest, apart from that it's mainly games, browsing, watching media etc).

I currently have a GTX570 and play games on a U2711, so I would assume the gpu would bottleneck quite a long time before the cpu would? Also based on some reviews it looks like the cpu doesn't have THAT much of an affect on quite a few games.

Thoughts?
I'd be getting the GIGABYTE F2A85XN-WiFi to go with it.

[Yeroon]

I'd suggest the richland based 760k, you'll find the overclocks more rewarding. Trinity wasn't the greatest clocker. Theres not much price difference. (10$ on newegg.ca)

[imamage]

Don't expert much overclocking with FM2 ITX board as I tried a few of them and they don't have much option at BIOS

MSI and Zotac don't provide VCore undervolt option
ASRock will have some OC setting but some people from my local forum complain about their A75 ITX board burnt out even using at stock pair with 100W APU, I owned a ASRock A85 ITX and it died for no reason (I use it with A4-4000 , no OC just stock)

You may try your luck with Gigabyte A85 , I changed to Gigabyte A85 ITX after the last ASRock died. It work just fine but don't expect much headroom for OC

[GeorgeStorm]

If I go for the 760k/750k, I'll be going for the board reviewed here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7229/g...and-in-miniitx


I think I've settled on going AMD, I'll take the performance drop to support the underdog and hopefully have a more 'fun' rig

I can get a 750k for ?40 or a 760k for ?65...