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Can Legacy Dual-Core CPUs Drive Modern Graphics Cards?  Comments
Filter:   • Re:Yes of course (Score:5, Insightful)      by
sortius_nod (1080919) on Friday February 08, 2013 @10:14PM
(#42840575) Homepage      It doesn't work like this though. Even
if you take the 50% performance increase on face value (not
taking into account higher AA/ASF/Shaders) that would mean a
game running at 15fps would increase to 23fps. Not exactly much
of an increase. Even if you were getting 30fps on the GTX 260,
that's an increase of 15fps (which is what the tests essentially
saw), hardly worth $300.      Meanwhile, if you spent the money
on CPU/MBD/RAM & a mid range graphics card (say a GTX 480 at
around $150), you'd see actual performance increases of around
3.5x that of sticking a GTX 660 on a crap motherboard with a
crap processor.      Sure, if you had every intention of
upgrading the rest of the co