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Coenheart
04-11-2008, 09:03 PM
The fact that this little calculator is on the site of a company that manufactures graphic's cards should be noted. I tend to agree that for people like me who use their home PC for gaming a great VC carries more wieght than a great processor.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/balancedpc.html
Rocqu
04-11-2008, 09:45 PM
I'm not sure I get it. Is this a price comparision against store bought PC's and home built PC's spec's for the same cost?
Coenheart
04-11-2008, 10:36 PM
Nah, it just show's how much a graphics card can improve your overall PC performance.
Khalathwyr
04-12-2008, 12:50 AM
<---is an nVidia fan and approves this message. I'll be picking up a 9600 GT KO sometime next month.
Martuk
04-12-2008, 02:36 AM
<---is an nVidia fan and approves this message. I'll be picking up a 9600 GT KO sometime next month.
/signed
7950GX2, but when the price drops will be upgrading to 9800 GX2
Can't say it's like a bible though, how much a CPU affects your game totally depends on the game in question. I mean, Supreme Commander was a huge CPU hog. Though I have always spent good money for a high end graphics card, and having the CPU as more of a nice thing to not bottleneck anything. CPU for me has to be decent, but nothing high end. So I got mine for 170 euro's back in september (E6750) whilst I spent 270 euro's on my graphics card (8800GTS-320). Would've gone over 300 for the 3d card if that upped the performance significantly.
But yea, the message is definitely good if people don't read it as absolute :p For the same amount of money a good graphics card is alot more important than a CPU.