Every time I have a discussion with, read an article by, or watch a video from a tech-savvy computer guru, they ALWAYS say the bottleneck of a gaming computer never comes from the CPU. Using today's technology, one can use an i3 or AM2 processor and still make a high-performance gaming machine if the money is invested in better GPU, PSU, and SSD set ups.
So if this is the case, why do 99.9% of all of the gamers overclock the piss out of their CPU? Seriously; nearly every rig in nearly every sig has a processor that's been taken up over 3.8 GHz. Will my computer perform poorly if I leave my Core i7-870 at 2.93 GHz, but overclock just the GPU?
I guess I want to know why the actions don't reflect the speech.
Thanks in advance!
So if this is the case, why do 99.9% of all of the gamers overclock the piss out of their CPU? Seriously; nearly every rig in nearly every sig has a processor that's been taken up over 3.8 GHz. Will my computer perform poorly if I leave my Core i7-870 at 2.93 GHz, but overclock just the GPU?
I guess I want to know why the actions don't reflect the speech.
Thanks in advance!