**all gamers read this**dual/quad cpu usage

[railmeat]

i read this article as i was on the fence about grabbing a q9550 to replace my e8400.....my e8400 is stayin put...

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us


"The reality with Call of Duty 4 is simple ... it just doesn't care much about the processor used. And that accounts for any resolution."

"Say you game at 1600x1200'ish. With Call of Duty 4 it just doesn't matter if you own a Dual, Quad 60USD or 1400 USD processor."


http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j11/bf2nut/cod4.jpg


"So from to to bottom we made sure we got the basis covered. I really wanted to insert a low-budget dual-core processor in the charts just for the simple fact you can observe the scaling of the faster processors. The slowest Dual-core processor used is the AMD Athlon X2 4850E. You can pick it up at roughly 60 USD and probably is the most green CPU in this test, for that fact alone I love it.

On the other side of the spectrum we see the 1400 USD Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770. Anything in-between these two processors is the baseline we need to form an opinion about.

Now above in 1024x768 you'll notice the effect of the processor, after 1600x1200 the graphics card becomes more of a bottleneck."





thoughts?.....