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I have been hearing and reading some very conflicting things. So this is my graphics card I am purchasing which I am now skeptical about.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-150-642&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=4&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Keywords=%28keywords%29&Page=3#scrollFullInfo

I have read that your graphics card is important for gaming but having a strong CPU helps greatly with the display and rending of a game because of process power. So if you had the best graphics card money can buy but have a subpar CPU it would still contain low fps and be a waste of money. Versus a strong CPU and mid range graphics card?

Side question can I stream with this card?
 
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Redheadsrule13
If you have a good graphics card and a crap CPU you will get bad performance in games as the CPU will be bottle-necking the graphics card. However, you don't need a high end CPU for gaming, mid range CPUs and up will perform the same in games due to the amount of processing power required to play smoothly is available. Buying anything more powerful will simply give you a greater amount of spare processing power.
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If you have a good graphics card and a crap CPU you will get bad performance in games as the CPU will be bottle-necking the graphics card. However, you don't need a high end CPU for gaming, mid range CPUs and up will perform the same in games due to the amount of processing power required to play smoothly is available. Buying anything more powerful will simply give you a greater amount of spare processing power.
 
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I was curious I read reviews of different people playing the same game with different processing power having higher and lower fps experience. If the CPU only contributed so much why is this so?
 
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Because Faster CPU = Faster Performance. He's not saying a mid range CPU won't get lower frames than a high end CPU. It will get lower frames. But it will still play smoothly. A quad core i5-4670K plays very similarly in most things to the hyperthreaded i7-4770K, despite a pretty big price difference, for example, but the i7 still wins out in some scenarios.
 
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