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Originally Posted by borandi 
There's no point having slick tires if your running a 50cc engine. The CPU feeds the GPU - if the CPU is slow, then it becomes the limiting factor. It depends if the game uses the CPU more than the GPU. The GPU is only good for vector and parallel tasks - for all the more complex stuff, some of it has to be handed off to the CPU. If the GPU is waiting for the CPU, then OCing your CPU makes more of a difference than OCing the GPU.
There's no point having slick tires if your running a 50cc engine. The CPU feeds the GPU - if the CPU is slow, then it becomes the limiting factor. It depends if the game uses the CPU more than the GPU. The GPU is only good for vector and parallel tasks - for all the more complex stuff, some of it has to be handed off to the CPU. If the GPU is waiting for the CPU, then OCing your CPU makes more of a difference than OCing the GPU.
Ofcourse, I understand this.
But for single GPU users like me, an overclocked 2500K to 4,5Ghz should always be enough and should never be a limiting factor...
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