P6860FX and Left for Dead

I have the P6860FX with the stock 1.83GHz which I will upgrade later. However I recently saw the system requirements for Left for Dead here

http://kotaku.com/5055099/here-are-your-left-4-dead-system-requirements

and it says "Dual Core 2.0" does that mean 2.0Ghz? and if it does, does that mean 2.0Ghz total or each core running at 2.0Ghz? Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this type of question but I thought my fellow 6860ers would know best hehe. Thanks in advance if you can answer my question!

 

I think there's a possibility it refers to Core2Duo CPU's.
Although I wouldn't worry too much.
Your gpu is for the most part responsible for gaming and not the cpu (although in certain games, a slow cpu may present a problem).

 

Meh, for minimum system requirements 2-3ghz usually means of an older Pentium or perhaps an AMD cpu... your CPU should be plenty for it, and like Deks said, the GPU is almost always the main concern in games anyways.

 

you should be good with that 8800 gts. worry not

 

If the game is based of the source engine your cpu might struggle with some of the physics processing. This will only happen on huge servers though.

 

With the new physics drivers for the 8800 cards couldnt you just use that to make up the difference in 1.83 and 2.0?

 

I dont think any source games take advantage of the Nvidia physx.

 

If you're playing online I would expect a lot of the physics to be calculated on the Server side anyways.

 

well then that settles it. We need 3 processors in laptops. CPU, GPU, PPU. Then we can get everything calculated with out horribally taxing any one componet

 

I dunno I remember going into the teens at time while playing tf2 or css with a lot of people, when I had the t5550. Now I rarely go below 30. Why would physics be calculated server side? Wouldn't that cause major lag with 30+ people playing?

 

I think it depends. How do you think a game like WoW operates with 200+ people on screen?

Also I'm not sure about your cs:s numbers... unless you had settings really cranked like 16xQ AA, which I don't think the CPU would have helped with, I don't know why you would have gotten such low FPS in CSS.

 

I agree on the CSS numbers... sounds insanely low... running on battery is the only thing I can think of.

 

Settings maxed 4xaa 16xaf. The numbers referred to TF2.