Low on cpu games needed

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Basically my mate has an ok pc, except his cpu.

He can't upgrade it either without changing the mainboard...

So basically, It's a spec me a game for the following spec:

Pentium 4 3.06 ghz
3gb ram
HD4850 1gb



I told him CoD4 should run maxed fine, any other games that aren't really heavy on cpu and will run well if powered by his card ?
 
how did he manage to have such a good gpu and such a terrible cpu? i there really arent that many current games that will play on it, you really have to go back quite a way to get things running smoothly.

cod4 will run on max the same as minimum, but i dont think it would be very playable either...

some RTS games, old games, bf2,fear... that sort of age anyway
 
Packard bell pc with a rev1 intel 945 chipset (pre c2d rev), won't accept more than a pentium D...

He bought the gpu to make latest photoshop faster as that uses the gpu, and now found out games run quite okay ( he said he could run Red alert 3 maxed now, unlike before on his 6600).

While I agree the cpu is crap, I have been on a p4 for ages in the past, and it's not as bad as they say if you have an okay gpu. Of course, any game actually coded for dual core will run **** atm, but let's not forget how long it took for them to actually implement dual cores into games, any game before they switched to Dc as the standard should work fine surely ? Problem is, I can't remember the turning point.
 
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snowdog said:
Packard bell pc with a rev1 intel 945 chipset (pre c2d rev), won't accept more than a pentium D...

He bought the gpu to make latest photoshop faster as that uses the gpu, and now found out games run quite okay ( he said he could run Red alert 3 maxed now, unlike before on his 6600).

While I agree the cpu is crap, I have been on a p4 for ages in the past, and it's not as bad as they say if you have an okay gpu. Of course, any game actually coded for dual core will run **** atm, but let's not forget how long it took for them to actually implement dual cores into games, any game before they switched to Dc as the standard should work fine surely ? Problem is, I can't remember the turning point.
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cod4, cod 2, bf2, anything valve, wow, bioshock (hopefully), company of heroes.
 
P4-3.06b isn't too bad as it's hyperthreaded, although the 533FSB really hits it hard (it makes a surprising difference on Northwood chips). I reckon most games more than 2 years old should be fine, very few were properly multithreaded back then and with a 4850 he should be able to crank up the res/aa/af with little drop in fps. The likes of Supreme Commander and DiRT didn't come out until 2007.

Obviously, some 2006 games will chug in places, as that cpu is a bit weaker than the A64 which was the standard gaming cpu of the time.
 
HangTime said:
P4-3.06b isn't too bad as it's hyperthreaded, although the 533FSB really hits it hard (it makes a surprising difference on Northwood chips). I reckon most games more than 2 years old should be fine, very few were properly multithreaded back then and with a 4850 he should be able to crank up the res/aa/af with little drop in fps. The likes of Supreme Commander and DiRT didn't come out until 2007.

Obviously, some 2006 games will chug in places, as that cpu is a bit weaker than the A64 which was the standard gaming cpu of the time.
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It's not a b though, its a S775 prescott... Not sure which exactly but says 3.06 ghz and it has 2 cpu bars in the task manager so has HT...

Anyways thanks for the replies ! as for source, I haven't seen any game except l4d use more than 1 core so I don't know, anyways I'm eager to see myself how cod4 works on his...
 
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