What games can I play with AMD Athlon X4 860k?

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REGULARDREAMS

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I'm planning to upgrade my latest build of AMD A6 7400k to the x4 860K because it's both FM2+ socket. I'm also tempted to buy G4560, but if I do that, I have to replace my board too. What is my best move? I have a GTX 1050 anyway, What games can I play with AMD Athlon X4 860k?
 
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Ecky

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You can play any game, but modern AAA games like The Witcher and Battlefield will have frequent dips in framerate. It really depends on how picky you are. The 860K will be a nice improvement over what you have, but as you probably know, that's the end of the like for FM2+.

EDIT: As a point of reference, an 860K is very comparable to a stock first-gen Core i5, released in ~2009. The i5 has better performance per clock and is also a quad core, but shipped with much lower clockspeeds.
 
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Callum Clarke

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I have an 860k running at stock speeds and stock air cooler paired with 12gb of ram and an RX 460 and this processor does have a noticeable bottleneck in some AAA games such as GTA V and COD:MWR however, for what it is, it does the job. I actually upgraded from an A6 6400k which is the previous version of the processor that you currently have and just for the sake of a better upgrade path, I'd go for the Pentium. You also get newer and better features with the Pentium such as DDR4 RAM.
 
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knivespico15

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What board do you have? Also, what ram do you have? FM2+ APU/CPU are ram dependent. Your ram should be running at 1866 or 2133 in dual channel. With good tweaking or perhaps correct overclock, you can run new games at decent frame rates with medium to high settings. I have two athlons. One is 860K paired with r9 380 and 880K paired with r7 370. My 860K is overclocked at 4.2 to match my r9 380, while my 880K wasn't OC'ed because it's already strong enough to run with R7 370.

I played a lot of moba games like DOTA (60-115FPS) LOL(Superb FPS).

Your combo 860K+1050 are really good.

For your reference, there is a review about athlon x4 880K paired with GTX 950

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/athlon-x4-880k-cpu-review/

Don't worry, 880K and 860K are the same chip. 880K is "slightly" upper hand.
950 is the same with 1050. They are identical while 1050 has "Slight" upgrade.

Just an update, my 880K was recently OCed to 4.5Ghz. My FPS in Dota2 never goes down below 72FPS.
I have also installed Shadow of Mordor. With in game benchmark, average FPS is 58.
 
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Goran Petric

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I have Athlon 760k, you could find used 860k to put it in, it would be an noticable uppgrade , but let me tell you sinca i have 760k, im not really happy with it, depending on a game my frames can really suffer because of poor single core performance, if you have the money go with completley new platform, g4560 + h110/b250, it's much better than FM2+, and have a good uppgrade path, you can always put i5 7400 or i7 7700 in it.
 
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mitch074

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You should keep your money for now and get a Ryzen R3 or R5 when they come out - this entails changing the RAM and mobo (like the Pentium 4560 would) but you'd get a real quad core and AVX2 support for the price. Provided you get a B350 based mobo, you'll be able to overclock it pretty much at will. Some recent games are starting to tax the Core i3's Hyperthreading capabilities and i5 are still quite expensive.

The Pentium 4560 is a nice chip though, probably better for current games than any Bulldozer-derivative from AMD, so if you can't wait you should really go for it.

Frankly, if my Haswell 4670K@4.2 GHz ever goes down, I'll get a Ryzen to replace it. I'll likely hold onto it until Zen 2/Zen+ though.
 
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