Quote Originally Posted by Zeph View Post
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6934/c...tigpu-at-1440p

Hmm, it seems that CPUs aren't as crucial to game performance nowadays. I guess the software engineering side of gaming has really changed since the GHz war tapered out. I remember back when people still didn't really have GPUs that could give players their team colors in Halo. Moving from a 2.6GHz to a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 would give you 5 more fps. Now, there's pretty much no difference at all.
That's assuming all games are well optimized. The ones that they used in the benchmark are not really demanding at all on the CPU. However, slap some BF3, Arma 2/3, and Planetside 2 in there and we'd see how much a good CPU is needed these days for gaming. Poorly optimized games (may or may not be the fault of the devs) are still heavily prevalent these days. Hell, even decently optimized games such as BF3 and Metro Last Light still require good CPUs to run them on very high, and max settings.