Will a processor by itself make a difference in video game resolution?

Darklight writes:

this is to Anssi Saari
have you disabled any of your peripherals Ie storage hard drives.

No.

Second what is your psu.

Corsair 520HX. I know, it's a little borderline for my system but should
be fine at least as long as I don't overclock both CPU and GPU at the
same time.

Third what are your settings for you nvidia gpu.

The video card is a Gigabyte GV-N670OC-2GD, so Base clock: 980 MHz and
Boost clock: 1058 MHz. Memory clock is normal 6008 MHz. Somewhat factory
overclocked since nominal clocks for a GTX670 are 915/980 MHz.

Paul writes:

It helps to understand what the processor is being wasted on. Try
"PhysX Medium - GPU".

Well, unfortunately I get frame rate drops seemingly at random even in
areas where there are no obvious PhysX effects in play. I've found one
place especially where frame rate drops typically to 50 fps but there's
nothing obviously heavy on screen there.

I tried lowering PhysX but as expected, no change. Also no change from
lowering various video options except for resolution. Even then, I can't
do 60 fps even at 1280x800.

I suppose it's upgrade time. I wonder how well Windows 7 copes when
motherboard is changed? My old motherboard is Asus P5Q Deluxe,
P45/ICH10R chipset going to Z77 on the Asrock Z77 Extreme4... At least
SATA should be all AHCI now so hopefully booting works. I'll have look
into this a little.

The game looks like a good way to promote the sale of new hardware.

I agree, the fluid effects like flowing water in streams are very cool.
I can't remember ever seeing such realistically flowing water in a game.
Which is kind of weird since Borderlands has a hand drawn cartoony look
about it in general.

On Nov 1, 8:55 am, Doc wrote:
I installed an Nvidia GTX 460 video card to boost the gaming
experience. Looked far better than the 8600 GT I'd been using. Then I
went from an E8400 Core2 Duo processor to a Q9550 Core2 Quad
processor.

I don't know if it's some placebo effect but it seems like the
graphics is even better after installing the Quad processor. Is there
any basis for this to be true? I.e. is there any reason for an already
fairly stout video card running under one CPU to look better just
because it's running under an even stronger CPU?

Not sure stronger even applies now.

I was looking over MSI MBs, Intel variants - and NOT one was equipped
for other than running an Intel *Graphics Enabled* processor (in a
socket 115x form factor).

Coupled with the newest breed of dual Celerons, of that persuasion,
they're running faster benches than powerhouse AMD X2s a few years
ago.

MSI's big deal, however, is solid-state capacitors on MB built for
(ostensibly, not to) "military" specifications.

Over on Gigabyte's offerings, however, similarly socketed for graphic-
qualified only CPU mates, they've support for a likes of automatic
switching between PCI-E (including CrossFire configs) and the MPU-GPU
aspect of the processor.

Take an instance of video encoding and that pair of PCI-E graphic
boards priced at respectively $400 each, and it should be readily
apparent they won't do one damn thing faster in the time the processor
takes to finish.

Play a game such as Halo, though, and the MB enters in the picture to
switch to the CrossFire slots for whatever flavor suits the builder.

To say in absolute terms (apart from program theory and predictive
analysis code written for branch decisions on multi-cores) - you'll
have to hit the gaming or hardware sites for CPU to GPU to both
combined over similarly grouped matrices.

Pretty pictures on graphs and such you know and love.

Doesn't look like there's other than Gigabyte and MSI left these days
-- although good to see MSI still in there, among newer brands and
others (BIOSTAR comes to mind) -- still priced for reasonably to
affordable means and entry builds;- ASUS I simply didn't mention
because it perhaps was priced beyond limits on a construction emphasis
(solid-state capacitors and advertised longer-life MBs) I was looking
at. Nothing much more in there hardly above $75US.