I think its just an issue of practicality. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. On the other hand, if you want a home theater PC or a internet/work that won't be playing games, stick with the integrated graphics. If you want to play games, you buy a computer which has a good GPU (keeping things in proportion of course, don't waste money on a $500 GPU if the entire rest of the computer only cost you $500 and has a shitty CPU that will bottleneck it). You buy the computer that you will fulfil the task you want it to fulfil. My work computer has never seen a game, but it does a LOT of number crunching, so that expensive CPU gets put to good use even though its only running a crappy $50 GPU. If you're not playing games, you probably don't need that GPU. There's no point spending $300 on a CPU if you don't buy a GPU or get a $50 GPU, if your intention is to play games. Games need good graphics cards, simple as that.
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