You have a bottleneck on that resolution, because there's probably more frames being produced than your CPU can process. If you UP the graphical stress, then it will disappear.
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You have a bottleneck on that resolution, because there's probably more frames being produced than your CPU can process. If you UP the graphical stress, then it will disappear.
What? A core 2 quad at 3,6 can handle that just fine. You don't need an I7 Extreme for his PC. In fact, the only thing that makes the higher-end I7 better than stock Core 2 Quads at gaming is higher clocks-- not memory cache. Once you overclock a Core 2 Quad, it matches the top of the line I7 and even surpasses it (at current games, that is).
When you play the game, look at the performance tab in task manager. You can Alt-tab to it when playing. If you see the CPU usage at high and stay at high, then you have a CPU bottleneck. I doubt you have a CPU issue. A more likely bottleneck potential is having 4GB of RAM, which can also be checked from task manager and I doubt is a bottleneck either.
What? A core 2 quad at 3,6 can handle that just fine. You don't need an I7 Extreme for his PC. In fact, the only thing that makes the higher-end I7 better than stock Core 2 Quads at gaming is higher clocks-- not memory cache. Once you overclock a Core 2 Quad, it matches the top of the line I7 and even surpasses it (at current games, that is).
His FPS is going to be over 150 always, but that's not necessarily a high-end C2Q.
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