Soleron on 26 December 2012
Squilliam said:
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. |
I run SC2 on a similar setup (4850/E8400 [2x3GHz]) and don't experience slowdown in 4v4. SC2 only uses 2 cores afaik.
I do think SC2 is CPU-bound essentially all of the time.
