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Is the AMD Athlon X4 860K compatible with Shadowplay?

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Rethinking everything and realized i don't need a $800 baller PC to play games

 

 

this is what im looking at right now 

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CytP99

 

FYI i already have RAM, CASE, and PSU so yea

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Shadowplay is GPU hardware acceleration. Your CPU is 100% irrelevant really

 

Edit: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-02gp43765kr Get this instead of the 660. This is better than the 660

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Shadowplay is GPU hardware acceleration. Your CPU is 100% irrelevant really

Well, no. It has CPU requirements. OP, I think your CPU is fine.

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Yes an 860K would be perfectly fine.

 

Well, no. It has CPU requirements. OP, I think your CPU is fine.

Well, there's CPU requirements for GeForce Experience. But not for explicitly Shadowplay.

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Yes an 860K would be perfectly fine.

 

Well, there's CPU requirements for GeForce Experience. But not for explicitly Shadowplay.

People have been locked out of Shadowplay because it didn't meet the CPU requirements. In the posted case, the CPU wasn't recognized, but simulates what I just said.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/627519/shadowplay-does-not-regognize-my-cpu-/

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Yes an 860K would be perfectly fine.

 

Well, there's CPU requirements for GeForce Experience. But not for explicitly Shadowplay.

that screenshot above seems pretty explicit to shadowplay...

 

 

System requirements can be found here. There's a chart to gauge if your system will be able to handle shadowplay.

http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience/system-requirements

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that screenshot above seems pretty explicit to shadowplay...

It is. If I go to Game Optimization, the CPU requirement is not displayed.

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that screenshot above seems pretty explicit to shadowplay...

That screenshot was not there when I quoted it. He edited the post afterwards.

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People have been locked out of Shadowplay because it didn't meet the CPU requirements. In the posted case, the CPU wasn't recognized, but simulates what I just said.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/627519/shadowplay-does-not-regognize-my-cpu-/

I know someone who uses Shadowplay with a 750K, so 860K will more then likely work.

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Ns2hGX

don't let the fact that the Pentium is a dual core fool you overclocked it will walk all over a 860k even in heavily threaded stuff + you get z97 with the option for upgrades for years to come 

+ a better gpu

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OP the 860k is superior to the pentium in most games except a handfull of mmo's...and to use shadowplay youll need a 700 series nvidia gpu or better.

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| GPU: MSI RTX 3080Ti Ventus 3X OC  |  RAM: 32GB T-Force Delta RGB 3066mhz |
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