NJ5 on 22 May 2011
| Slimebeast said: A good rule of thumb is that you will on average spend at least twice as much money on the GPU than the CPU to keep proper balance, and yet it will be the GPU who bottlenecks. |
Interesting because I did the exact opposite :D (bought Phenom II X6 @ 2.8 GHz when it cost around $200 and a HD 5750 for a bit more than $100).
But I use the CPU for non-gaming purposes too, for gaming it's definitely overpowered and a cheaper quad core would have been fine.
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