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    What's a matching CPU for 8400GS?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by whatevs, Aug 25, 2007.

  1. whatevs

    whatevs Notebook Consultant

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    I know for games, GPU is the bottleneck right now (safe the RTS, which are quite CPU dependent)

    Hence, I want to know which CPU to go with a 8400GS so that both will be unusable even at low settings at around the same time. (Maybe a year or two)

    I'm looking at maybe the T5xxx series, or maybe T7100, right?
     
    whatevs, Aug 25, 2007
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    hlcc Notebook Evangelist

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    if you plan to encode alot of music and video upgrade the CPU, if not take the T5 series. A T5 series wouldn't even bottle neck a 8700M GT
     
    hlcc, Aug 25, 2007
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    eL_eRiC Notebook Evangelist

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    ya a t5 would be fine, cpu is not nearly as important as gpu
     
    eL_eRiC, Aug 25, 2007
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  4. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    For gaming, any C2D should be fine for almost all games. You really can't go wrong.
     
    fabarati, Aug 25, 2007
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    I would go with the T7100 like you mentioned. A few multi-threaded games like Crysis are coming out so a C2D would be good like fabarati recommended.
     
    Agent CoolBlue, Aug 25, 2007
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  6. whatevs

    whatevs Notebook Consultant

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    Well, for games like Crysis, a 8400GS would probably not be able to handle it unless on all lowest settings, so a T5xxx would probably be fine, correct?
     
    whatevs, Aug 25, 2007
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  7. fabarati

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    Well, Supreme commander is EXTREMLY CPU drive, so the better you have, the bette it'll play.
     
    fabarati, Aug 25, 2007
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    whatevs Notebook Consultant

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    Well, the most CPU intensive game I'll play with my next laptop is probably SC2, which is the only RTS I'm really looking forward to. Games of other genres, like MMOs, don't really eat up CPUs.
     
    whatevs, Aug 25, 2007
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