Quote Originally Posted by Eastcoasthandle View Post
You do remember the big push during the early part of the summer that you don't need a high end CPU with your high end GPU don't you? It's now clear this was intended for nvidia video cards more so then all video cards as some claimed.
But you don't need a fast CPU for HD 4870X2. It is not that smart to buy this card for games that don't need it. Games that is heavy on the graphics and needs a fast video card will be fast even if you have a slow processor.

I have a Phenom 9500 (2,2 GHz) on the game computer. Here you can se how hard the cpu works in crysis warhead (GPU = 4870X2).


I didn't buy this card to get 300+ FPS, I bought it to get playable framerates in games that is very heavy on the graphics.
The only thing that the computer will do with a faster processor for easy (graphics) driven games is to use a lot more power.