| fatslob-:O said: It depends on your power supply and it would be a waste to put in a nice graphics card with a weak CPU. |
Agreed.
He would still benefit from it though, just his minimum, average and maximum framerates just won't be as high as they should be.
A Dual-Core Hyper-Threaded Sandy Bridge CPU running at 3.3ghz is still relatively potent (Especially in comparison to AMD.)
And he does have the option to drop in a Quad-Core Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge processor later down the line anyway.
So really the only problem is... That Power Supply unit, - Without knowing more, we really can't recommend him anything except something extremely low end.
| Shido said: No problem with the mobo. Problem is maybe PSU and case. That CPU may bottleneck on CPU heavy games (starcraft 2, planetside 2 mostly. Crysis 3, skyrim and battlefield 4 to some degree) |
Nah.
Other than Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4, they're only Dual-issued games, basically the other games want clockspeed not half a dozen CPU cores.
It's also not like he is running only a Core 2 Duo, he does have Hyper-Threading too which will provide a small boost in games which are heavily threaded.
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