FX 5600, Should It Go ?

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Actually a thunderbird with a 6800 would be CPU limited, but you are right that the mx does better in Painkiller becuase it doesn't do any shaders.

Believe it or not (more thank likely you wont) i meant CPU limited. You should know this by my definition.

However almost any setting in Far Cry is GPU limited, as well as HL2, and DIII. CPU's dont affect performance as much as a GPU in most cases.

-Kevin

true in most cases, some games like UT2004 are very CPU intensive though, I noticed gains in performance going from an XP2500 to my A64 3200 for sure. (on a 9800 Pro) Very nice improvement. But in lots of cases, the GPU will play a more important role than the CPU. (provided the CPU is not UBER slow of course)