CPU Scaling ATI and Nvidia's Finest

Now that you’ve seen the fastest video cards around, the current line of CPUs seem to be our bottlenecks. So how well will our system run with it? [H] has the answers on the most common CPUs we use.

“Our CPU scaling experiences really helped us understand just how important the CPU is to having a great gaming experience. In real-world gaming situations with a slower CPU such as an AthlonXP 2500+ or a Pentium4 2.4GHz, the video performance becomes extremely bottlenecked by the CPU. We were forced to reduce resolution, AA and AF settings, as well as in-game quality settings in the case of FarCry just to get playable performance.”

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