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Old 09-17-2004, 02:25 PM   #35 (permalink)
catback
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Lasereth: I understand where your coming from and it's all good but I do wanna clear up something, when you say doom 3 will run better do you mean the graphics will look better or do you mean the game will actually run faster. If your talking about graphics then your right but if your saying the game is run by the video card or run faster by it then your the opposite of right. Regardless of what game or what system you have I will stand by this fact: Graphics cards need to be paired with their matching processor for optimal performance. If your high-end video card isn't paired with a high-end processor the video card's performance suffers, and vice-versa. Not that this will always be an issue but if you really wanna milk your dollars worth on your brand new $500+ video card you better have a brand new or nearly so fast ass processor. That's all I wanna say about video cards, processors and gaming.

As far as kevin recommending someone upgrade their processor instead of video card for doom 3. In his defense he's no idiot or gaming newbie, most likely the person with the question didn't have at least a 2.0 Ghz processor but there video card was enough to play doom 3 with decent frame rates with even maybe medium quality. The person probably wanted to max out the quality and yes a video card would do that but for the money it would cost the person could improve their whole system by upgrading the processor and maybe other things. Sure it won't get them the maxed out quality but doom 3 and all other games and programs would run faster and better instead of everything running the same and doom just looking prettier.
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