Game performance is mostly determined by the power of the Graphics Card, not the processor. (Unless they're click game)
As far as Labtops are concerned, Duel core uses more power and generate more heat than single, which is not optimal for mobility.
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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10th August, 2007 at 10:04:46 -
"Game performance is mostly determined by the power of the Graphics Card, not the processor."
This is only true for games that need hardware acceleration of any kind to improve performance. Most older don't need the extra processing power.
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10th August, 2007 at 10:32:57 -
Duel core uses more power and generate more heat than single
You made that up.
Pentium 4 TDP: Up to 100W
Core 2 Duo TDP: Up to 65W
Phizzy's right, dual core use less power and thus (usually less heat), and now that the G0 chips are released there is even more of a difference between the two. Two is better than one - Four is better than two, as far as CPU's go anyway.
""Game performance is mostly determined by the power of the Graphics Card, not the processor."
This is only true for games that need hardware acceleration of any kind to improve performance. Most older don't need the extra processing power."
You also have to consider that a processor can bottleneck a graphics card. If you have a slow processor and an amazing graphics card, you will reach a frame cap, no matter what resolution you're on or how high the graphics get.
LOL, Core2 uses much less power than P4, that's why they like to stick it on laptops. Though it only tends to use less power when you're running a low processing program like MS Word. You can't say the AMD processors use less power than the P4 either .
I've got a good graphics card and an OK processor/RAM. It runs some games great on full power (eg. NFS Underground 2 with full 4X antialiasing) but slows badly on some other games like The Sims 2 and Civ4 (late in the game)
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