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    Which CPU?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Slusho, May 5, 2011.

  1. Slusho

    Slusho Notebook Guru

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    It seems that the consensus on this forum (or at least what several people told me in another thread) is that the GPU is a bottleneck so it's useless to get the middle processor over the lowest one (I'm ignoring the best one because it's an obvious waste of money). But doesn't a better CPU make things run faster in general? Is there really no reason to upgrade the CPU?
     
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    SonRK Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think the consensus is that don't upgrade the processor if you expect any performance increase in video games, but for actual multi tasking and running cpu intensive programs you will see improvement
     
    SonRK, May 5, 2011
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    Okay, thanks!
     
    Slusho, May 5, 2011
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