Is 1.5 Ghz C2D enough for gaming?

Do u think is my processor speed that cause some of the high end games such as NFS Pro Street and Crysis lag when play?But the way i am talking on my Dell Inspiron 1520 Notebook with 1.5 C2D..Just wanna noe whether CPU Performance also make a huge differences in gaming...Besides that?Which wan make the most gaming experience?Graphic Card or CPU?

 

It will be fine. A gpu is much more important in gaming, so make sure you have the 8600GT and you're set.

That is unless you play at very low resolutions, in which case the slow cpu might hinder your performance a little. But at anything 1280*800 and over and the cpu will become almost irrelevant.

 

Not to be rude, but could you type a little more grammar-friendly?

A higher cpu would probably definately help...

 

thanks bro for the info...but thats still a prob..Why i cant still play pro street and Crysis smoothly on high settings...Should i overclock my notebook?and how much should i OC it???

 

Hey kahwei,

Good luck with Crysis. I have a 1520 with 2.0 Ghz, 2GB, and an 8600 GT...check my signature...and I have to play DX9 with medium settings. DX 10 is a huge gpu hogger unfortunately...either that or the coding in crysis is horrible. So just because you have an 8600 GT doens't mean you will be fine. My 8600 GT is where my system falters. I checked CPU usage and RAM usage during Crysis and both were fine, so logically it must be the graphics card that made it choppy until I changed the settings.

 

OC to 1.1 or if you can than to 0.9. just don't freeze it

 

my friend has a 2.4ghz quad core, 8800gts (320mb) 2gb 800 mhz ram, raid 5 7200rpm drives, and can only run on medium its very demanding on the gpu

 

thanks for the info everyone...seems that cyrtek has to do a lot of things to improve the game...hope they will come with a patch that can improve the gameplay...thanks u very much for the info.=)

 

I can't help but notice the irony of your request of him to "type a little more grammar-friendly" while you misspell "definitely" in the same post. To be fair, I think I've seen online your incorrect "definately" more than I've seen the correct "definitely".

I do agree with you, though, that it is much more pleasant to read posts written in English and not in shorthand or whatever else.

 

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Not cool enough to be on the interwebs, you say? Go back to 4chan, where you belong .

As for 1.5Ghz being enough for games--if you don't mind a bit of load time, it should be fine. I'm using a 1.6Ghz (T5470, check Sig for rest of the specs) with 8600M GT and I can run most newer games on Medium settings decently at 1280 x 800 res. Expect a bit lower for Crysis (around 20-30FPS Medium settings at 1280 x 800. You might be able to hit a more permanent 25+FPS if you drop your resolution down one notch to 1024 x 640).

Just turn down "Physics simulation" for most games that demand a lot of CPU power and you'll be fine (CoH, FEAR, WiC and Crysis are all CPU demanding games, so turn down the physics simulation in those games).

 

why couldnt people play dx10 but dx9?

 

how do you run a game in DX9 rather than DX10 in Vista? and dont you lose a lot of eye candy when u do this?

 

for crysis look for the "very high patch" and you can even run in XP and dx9 (and with an dx9 card) with graphics almost identical to crysis dx10. And also with more performance for dx10 cards

you have to run the game with, i think, the command line option "-dx9" to force dx9

 

No No, it´s not that hard. To play Crysis in DX9, at least in Vista, right click on the Crysis logo in games explorer, and select ¨Play DX9¨and you´re done....yes, you do lose a lot of eye candy and you can see the trees forming in real time as you come upon them, which is disturbing, since in DX10, they are already nicely formed when you walk towards them. But it´s the only thing I found where the game still looks nice and the framerate is not absolutely horrific.

 

i believe there's a console command to change that ... i don't remember the name tough,and i already uninstalled the demo

 

wait is this true...
lower the resolution depends more on the cpu?