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[Amit]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6934/c...tigpu-at-1440p

Hmm, it seems that CPUs aren't as crucial to game performance nowadays. I guess the software engineering side of gaming has really changed since the GHz war tapered out. I remember back when people still didn't really have GPUs that could give players their team colors in Halo. Moving from a 2.6GHz to a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 would give you 5 more fps. Now, there's pretty much no difference at all.

That's assuming all games are well optimized. The ones that they used in the benchmark are not really demanding at all on the CPU. However, slap some BF3, Arma 2/3, and Planetside 2 in there and we'd see how much a good CPU is needed these days for gaming. Poorly optimized games (may or may not be the fault of the devs) are still heavily prevalent these days. Hell, even decently optimized games such as BF3 and Metro Last Light still require good CPUs to run them on very high, and max settings.

[Warsaw]

Metro? Decently optimized? Ha ha.

[Amit]

Metro? Decently optimized? Ha ha.

In comparison to 2033 :P

[PlasbianX]

Picked up a razer deathadder mouse for my build. Absolutely love it. Anyone have any good mechanical keyboards they'd recommend getting? I'm currently using a first generation logitech g15.

[Cortexian]

TRY a Razer BlackWidow 2013 (Ultimate or otherwise) and see if you like the blue switches. If not you might want to go with a different switch-type keyboard, although I don't see the point in getting a mechanical keyboard with switches that you can't actually feel the "click" on.

[Bodzilla]

Blue is a very enhanced and LOUD clicking, most people prefer and are better off with the browns.

[Amit]

I hate loud keyboards. What mechanical keyboard should I get if I wanted to do quiet typing? Does such a keyboard even exist?

[Cortexian]

I like blues because they stimulate ASMR for me, and it's absolutely awesome.

BTW:

[ThePlague]

I have reds and to me they're great, especially coming from a Microsoft Sidewinder X4.

[PlasbianX]

Can anyone explain what the colors mean? Reds? Blues?