Below was some testing I just did triggered on a discussion elsewhere about how much influence does storage performance has on game load times. That's when I thought, for now is loading time influenced by CPU speeds and will remain so until we get GPU offloading with directstorage 1.1? Before this point, I was of the opinion the CPU only needed to be fast enough to give the target fps in game. Now I'm thinking, if you really want to min/max your load times as well, going faster CPU might...
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