Help me help a friend with his PC

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StarCraft 2 is a dual core application . Core 2 Quad won't make that much difference and you know Pentium E5xxx (Wolfdale , same microarchitecture as Core 2 duo E8xxx) is pretty good at overclocking , right ?

Quote:Or is the cpu going to be the bottleneck to the point where a graphics card won't make a difference?

It will bottleneck the GTX 660 for sure . If I was him , I would prefer the newest APU . APU = CPU upgrade (2 cores vs 4 cores , 2.7GHz vs 3.7~4.0GHz ) + GPU upgrade (Intel GMA4500X vs Radeon 7 series integrated GPU ~ probably somewhere between GT 640 and GTX 650 ) . Btw , he won't have to pay more for monthly electric bill and please don't forget about AMD Mantle (lower CPU requirement)

IMO , even an E5400 @ 3.6GHz (OCed) has a hard time to keep up with GTX 650 Ti Boost