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they use the Core Archeteture so i'm guessing Conroe-L's overclock very decently
512KB L2 speaks for itself
they use the Core Archeteture so i'm guessing Conroe-L's overclock very decently
Honestly, for gaming, cpus are extremely overrated. A better graphics card will always give you a better edge in gaming than a better cpu would. My E2160 stock runs CoD4, Crysis Beta, UT3 Beta and World in Conflict immaculately, and most single cores still run games fine. So super cheap dual-core celies are going to be great if you want to leave some cash for a super high-end graphics card, although the 512kb L2 is a tad worrisome, and you would definitely not have any performance room to alt-tab from a resource intensive game.
im not gonna agree on that...
when i had my 8800gts paired up with a 3400+ my 3dmark score was 5k and performance was ok...
when i switched to an e6550, my score jumped to 9K...almost 10 even on stock and the increase performance in gaming was major.
Yes, that's because there are several benchmarks specifically for the CPU in 3DMark. When I OC'd my processor, I saw no difference in actual framerate in games because my card stayed in stock. In 3DMark, only my cpu-score increased.
In reality, most games are a lot more GPU intensive then they are CPU-intensive, developers do this for the mainstream market, where it's a lot easier to upgrade a video card than it is to upgrade a processor, realistically, the only thing I could see a better processor doing would be decreasing installation and load times, and of course enabling the ability to multi-task, but if you're running the game straight with little else running in the background, even the lowest-end cpu will be enough to play current and upcoming games, and you only notice a cpu-gpu bottleneck when there's a huge gap in technology, like my old 1.6GHz P4 (that ran SDRAM) with a 6800GT, and even then, I only saw a 10-15% decrease in performance
well the new games comming out are suppose to support and utilize dual cores and quad cores.
I've oc my cpu from 2.3 stock to 3.43 now and ive noticed increase in fps even when my gpu is stock.
The newer card, like the 8800 series, need a better cpu to support it. Im not sure about the older cards, but this is correct about the newer generation cards.