![]() You don't buy an F1 car to go down the street to get the milk, and you don't buy a Prius to race the 24 hours Le Mans. You don't buy a PC without a GPU to play new modern games, and you don't buy a $500 GPU to watch TV on a HTPC. ![]() Yea this is true but gray area for instance I have put really good video cards in with POS CPUs and made the game I was playing much much better I have upgraded POS CPUs to high end CPUs with little impact on frame rate. ![]() For instance a little bit ago just for fun I took an old AM2+ dual core CPU at 2.8 GHz and installed an old GTX 295 and then I tried a GTX 470 I had laying around the GTX 470 made Skyrim run Way smoother so then I put both video cards in to a AM3 quad core CPU at 3.7GHz and the FPS was higher in all my games I tried but not by much. Nothing formal I just played some games for a few hours on each setup and had fraps running and I found that gaming on the dual core with the GTX 470 was not bad at all and well worth the upgrade. Nice improvement for around $300 and quick installĪ GTX 470 easy install band new I don't know around $300Īround $300 lots of work marginal improvement For the improvement where the same video card in the Quad core was not really worth the work or the cost for the small improvement it made. I think its just an issue of practicality. Look at the size of the heatsink on a GPU, even lower end ones capable of gaming usually require their own fan. Performance needs power, power means heat, heat means you have to think more carefully about design and include adequate cooling.
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