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    Processor/Video Card combo: Online games versus Single Player Games

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by keithianw, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. keithianw

    keithianw Notebook Geek

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    I mentioned this in another Sager thread and wanted some general opinions.

    Most of the time, the Video Card is by far the #1 reason why you go higher end. The processor is normally #2. Ram #3, etc. I had an old PC with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.8GHz and a GTX 280 card. The warranty company sent me a free i5-2400 3.1GHz (a better processor) with a GTX 550Ti ( a worse card) and WOW Cataclysm seemed to run smoother on the latter. That had me wondering if processor/card combinations should be measured completely different when measuring online games versus single player games. Does the processor play a much greater role in online games (MMORPGs) or was this just an anomaly? Is showing only the Video Card in Benchmarking really a good indicator for online games?
     
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    fgocards Notebook Consultant

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    World of Warcraft is an exception. It relys quite a bit more on the processor due to it having to decode more things in the background because the map is so huge.

    Video cards are still the most important part in gaming, but large games like WoW are much more likely to be bottlenecked by the processor if you have a sufficient GPU.
     
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