no one realises how huge the perforemcne gap is between this gen and last gens gpu's the new video cards otu are imensely powerfull its not even funny, older gpu's are all botle necking the cpu hence why a e6300 will run as fast as a q6600. these new faster gpus' alow our cpus to run faster and they crank out more fps, resultign in a much higher fps and 3dmark 06 score, the gpu can botle neck the entire system slows down the cpu, which in turn also slows down ram bandwith. wich increases hard drive use which is also a huge botle neck going back to you hdd. if he gets a new gpu he will easaly go up in 3d macks, even if its just a 3850, or 8800gs.
