Help Me Upgrade My PC

[Squilliam]

Soleron said:

Squilliam said:

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Why would it be a waste of time? I run a similar system with the only difference being 200Mhz and Phenom II vs Athlon X4. You're GPU/CPU limited in different parts of a scene so unless your CPU is hopelessly outdated you can still improve things with a stronger CPU and an Athlon II X4 is pretty decent still.

Starcraft II specifically is very CPU-bound and he's probably right.

It may be CPU bound but that doesn't mean that a more modern GPU won't help things a lot. If you're CPU limited 50% of the time and GPU limited 50% of the time then upgrading the GPU to being 3 times faster means you can render each frame in 66% of the time or 1/3rd faster. That 1/3rd could be the difference between running something smoothly and running a juddering mess and this example is quite extreme as it is.