CPU or GPU limited in gaming?

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icsta

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I recently picked up(for free) an old PC with an athlon 7550 & 3GB DDR2. I threw in a nvs 600 I had laying around to see what kind of gaming it could do. In Counter-Strike Global Offensive I am getting 35-60 FPS at 1440x900 resolution. Do you guys think this is a CPU or GPU limitation?

Thanks!
 
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Your CPU does not meet CSGO minimum requirements...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Minimum Requirements
CPU:Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 processor or better
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP
Video Card: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 8 GB

Please note... These are the MINIMUM requirements, not recommended or optimum system requirements.

NOTE: Depending on CPU/Chipset, RAM speed will affect performance not only in gaming but in general tasks. Here's just one example of one study that was done FYI for later use if you decide to build...
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Fates_Demise

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smorizio is somewhat mistaken; just being a old cpu and memory is not going to mean its your bottleneck. I had been using a core 2 duo e8500 with a gtx 570 for a long time with no bottleneck until games that needed 4 cores started coming out. Also tests have shown that memory speed at 1600 and above have near 0 game impact on performance.. going lower than 1600 down to ddr2 800 had a mere 8% impact at worse case.

So depending on the game you could start seeing some negative impact but with that card its near non existant to begin with especially if you overclock it.

So TLDR: all depends on the game your playing.
 
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Your CPU does not meet CSGO minimum requirements...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Minimum Requirements
CPU:Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 processor or better
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP
Video Card: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 8 GB

Please note... These are the MINIMUM requirements, not recommended or optimum system requirements.

NOTE: Depending on CPU/Chipset, RAM speed will affect performance not only in gaming but in general tasks. Here's just one example of one study that was done FYI for later use if you decide to build: http://wccftech.com/haswell-works-high-speed-ram-benchmarks-show-ddr31600-mhz/
 
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10tacle

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If the GPU is an Nvidia Quadro 600, that's not a gaming GPU...that's a workstation GPU. You could slap on old GTX 285 in there and see an immediate boost in FPS performance in any game that system is capable of playing.

But still, CSGO is mostly CPU dependent being the old Half-Life 2 engine, and responds better to faster CPU speeds, so it's both really. Smorizio is correct contrary to what Fates says. For this specific game anyway.
 
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