[QUOTE="04dcarraher"] Then your ideas of high end gaming is warped. Because high end gaming in playing the games on high or max you dont have to have the best of the best to achieve it. And its true about the cpu becomes less important(to a certian point) as the resolutions go up. You can take a game with a X2 6400 vs a E8400 with same gpu,ram etc, ok and play at 1024x768 the X2 get say 90 fps while the E8400 get 120 fps. Now bump up the res to 1600+ or even 1920 now they are within a couple of frames of each other.
Wesker776
Do you not understand the concept of 'high end'? :| OK, yes, maybe I probably should have put some form of stupid modifier infront of 'high' like 'ultra' or 'super', but I shouldn't have to spell it out for you.
The CPU does make a huge difference, not matter what the resolution, despite what Nvidia wants you to believe. If you have a slow CPU feeding data too slowly to the GPU, then you'll obviously incur a performance penalty. The CPU relies on the GPU to render the given data quickly, the GPU relies on the CPU to feed it data quickly. There's no way of getting around the fact that they rely on each other.
The difference between a 6000+ and E8400 can be the difference between 25 FPS in Crysis and 18 FPS (for example).
Do you know why the CPU and GPU depend on each other?
its because the GPU is run though PCIe and the chipsets run the data to the CPU and then back again. but anyway I think that the gaming it would depend on the game but I think that the X2 6400+ would be faster in most games. But in some game and apps. the x4 9550 would beat the 6400+ since it better for HD movies, and more deminding but I am not sure for certian. THe qual core is the future.
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