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I've been seeing some really weird comments from people, basically saying that if you game at low res, you need a more powerful CPU so that you dont get bottlenecked - but at a high res, CPU matters less.
This is some weird, whacked out logic and i'd like to clear up how people are getting this strange idea.
When you game at low or at high resolutions, the CPU is equally important. At higher resolutions your video card is likely to get bottlenecked quicker, thus lowering the overall FPS.
People are using that information and making the assumption that because the GPU is limited, the CPU isnt important - and therefore doesnt matter; and they then assume the reverse is opposite, that at a low res where the GPU isnt limited, the CPU must be the limit.
This is faulty logic.
The CPU power required by a game will stay the same between resolution changes, in fact, it goes HIGHER at higher resolutions due to feeding the video card the data it needs.
If you turn down every setting in a game, your CPU may well turn out to be the limit - but at this point you've likely gone from 20 FPS to 200, making it totally pointless to reccomend a faster CPU at that resolution, over a faster video card.
Dont get fooled by faulty logic - the higher the resolution used and more powerful your video card, the more powerful a CPU you're gunna need.
Personal comment: I've done about 20 revisions on this trying to make it as clear as i can. If someone comes up with something better, or points out a typo/screwup in my post, i will clear it up/post their version.
edit: as i said above, here is some quotes
Perfectly summarizes what i'm trying to say... in a lot less words.
This is some weird, whacked out logic and i'd like to clear up how people are getting this strange idea.
When you game at low or at high resolutions, the CPU is equally important. At higher resolutions your video card is likely to get bottlenecked quicker, thus lowering the overall FPS.
People are using that information and making the assumption that because the GPU is limited, the CPU isnt important - and therefore doesnt matter; and they then assume the reverse is opposite, that at a low res where the GPU isnt limited, the CPU must be the limit.
This is faulty logic.
The CPU power required by a game will stay the same between resolution changes, in fact, it goes HIGHER at higher resolutions due to feeding the video card the data it needs.
If you turn down every setting in a game, your CPU may well turn out to be the limit - but at this point you've likely gone from 20 FPS to 200, making it totally pointless to reccomend a faster CPU at that resolution, over a faster video card.
Dont get fooled by faulty logic - the higher the resolution used and more powerful your video card, the more powerful a CPU you're gunna need.
Personal comment: I've done about 20 revisions on this trying to make it as clear as i can. If someone comes up with something better, or points out a typo/screwup in my post, i will clear it up/post their version.
edit: as i said above, here is some quotes
It's not the CPU that matters more, it's the GPU that matters less.
I'm not reading through all of the comments, but I did read some.
Saying the CPU is more important at the lower res is wrong. Period.
However, I can see the logic behind that saying, it is only wrong because it is worded wrong.
What should be said is: You need a stronger CPU at a lower resolution to not bottleneck the GPU.
Using my example from earlier in the thread, if I wanted to see that 200FPS the GPU was capable of at 1024x768, I would need a stronger CPU to do it. That is where the logic comes from. The people trying to express it are just wording it wrong.
Perfectly summarizes what i'm trying to say... in a lot less words.
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