PoetPhilosopher
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I'm continuing my trend of making topics on technology considering it's a subject I like and it got some positive response.
Video cards are very very important for gamers. They make a big difference. However if faced between a low-end video card and a low-end CPU for gaming, you may still want to consider the video card that is low-end despite what the world says. And choose the better CPU instead.
I have tried 3 PCs where the CPU, upon not meeting the Recommended System Requirements of a game, but meeting the minimum system requirements, produced occasional microstuttering in games and longer in-game loading times.
Whereas the only side effects of a worse video card was quite often, having to turn down the graphics settings to maintain a stable framerate. This isn't exactly the same as microstuttering, the framerate may be lower overall, but unless it's too low, there is no microstuttering like effect to make the game unsmooth like there is with a weak CPU.
I have also seen a YouTube video regarding the latest PC Tomb Raider game that shows the same. I'm trying to locate the video again to post as stronger evidence.
Video cards are very very important for gamers. They make a big difference. However if faced between a low-end video card and a low-end CPU for gaming, you may still want to consider the video card that is low-end despite what the world says. And choose the better CPU instead.
I have tried 3 PCs where the CPU, upon not meeting the Recommended System Requirements of a game, but meeting the minimum system requirements, produced occasional microstuttering in games and longer in-game loading times.
Whereas the only side effects of a worse video card was quite often, having to turn down the graphics settings to maintain a stable framerate. This isn't exactly the same as microstuttering, the framerate may be lower overall, but unless it's too low, there is no microstuttering like effect to make the game unsmooth like there is with a weak CPU.
I have also seen a YouTube video regarding the latest PC Tomb Raider game that shows the same. I'm trying to locate the video again to post as stronger evidence.