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Does system speed/specs really make a difference in performance? Or is there a pretty much a line of how well games will perform no matter how new and fast your system and vid card is?

I mean, is there a point where hardware doesn't matter and it's kinda software dependent on optimization?

For example, my old system:
Intel 9550 quad-core at 3.4ghz
6gb ram ddr2-6400
nvidia 9800gt

new system:
intel i5-2500k
8gb ddr3-1333
gtx 460 1gb

would there be a significant increase in performance? Or probably same crap? it ran well on my old system, new system's not built yet...otherwise i'd just try it myself and find out

the sandybridge is good 15-20% faster because of the architecture

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/proc...74-12.html

here you can see the comparision of single thread applications running at 3GHZ on all cpu's

and the sandybridge is everywhere faster

Quote:I mean, is there a point where hardware doesn't matter and it's kinda software dependent on optimization?

No. Both hardware performance and software optimization affect the performance of the application no matter what.

Quote:would there be a significant increase in performance?

Yes. Your new cpu is far more powerful and that will boost dolphins performance tremendously.