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    T3200 and gaming.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by -DMD-, Dec 28, 2008.

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    -DMD- Notebook Enthusiast

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    Would a Dual core T3200 processor handle gaming of any kind?
    The graphic card is pretty decent(ATI Radeon HD3470 256MB DDR II)
    but the processor...
    I mean... could it be that the graphic card will be good enough for a certain game while the "Dual Core T3200 2.0GHz" won't be able to handle it.
    It would be such a waste of money getting this card with that kind of processor if the processor will stop the card from working as it should be.
    And another thing, does anyone know which processor is needed to play Diablo3? :0

    Thx.
     
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    the hd3470 will be the bottle neck
     
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    Are you sure the processor will even be able to use 80% of the card's resources?
    Seems to me that 3450 would be the bottle's neck. Hehe
     
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    No its the 3450/3470 thats the bottle neck. You could upgrade your cpu and get some more FPS but your not going to be getting as preformance boost as if you just had a better graphics card.
     
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    Yeah the HD3470 will bottleneck games more than the T3200. In all essences, only RTS games and a few other notable exceptions(such as GTA4) really stress the CPU enough so that a CPU would bottleneck, unless we're talking about leagues of differences between the CPU and GPU.

    But in your case, the HD3470 will bottleneck rather than the T3200. Despite the Pentium Dual Core name, the T3200 is based off the previous generation Core 2 Duo T5750 so it isn't a bad CPU.
     
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    Ah, thanks a lot! I couldn't even imagine that T3200 is a decent CPU.
    Could you can actually compare it to T5800? I know it's weaker but.. how badly?
    BTW would diablo 3 run on it, or will it struggle to death? Heh
     
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    The T5800 is slightly better than a T5750 and slightly worse than a T5850 as stated by their numbers. Therefore, a T3200(which is based off a T5750) should be slightly worse than a T5800. It'll really depend. Pentium Dual Cores aren't bad, they just aren't Core 2 Duos. They are still fine processors and aim at the budget tight buyers ;).

    As for Diablo 3, I don't know the system requirements or if it will be CPU intensive or not, but judging from Blizzard's coding of previous games, it'll most likely be able to run Diablo. Diablo 2 runs on a netbook sooooo.... :rolleyes:
     
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    Can anyone else share with me his opinion about the T3200 being slightly worse than a T5800? xD
    BTW will it be enough to run Solid edge v20?
    That's one of the main reasons why I'm looking to get a laptop.
    My fren, with his T3200 can run Solid very well although pretty much everyone states it won't.

    And his running Vista on the T3200 which takes quite a lot of the processor.(in my opinion of course)
     
    -DMD-, Dec 28, 2008
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