The CPU is the most important part of a gaming PC, not the GPU.

[itokei5281]

My opinion

[vkobe]

of course else how you going to run your pc ^_^ ?

[Dr. Weird]

The patty is the most important part of the burger, not the cheese.

[MinionJoe]

Depends on how the game is coded.

[Knee]

What does “most important” mean in this context?

[abcd]

no but it causes the most problems when it is severely outdated.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I will say, the Motherboard.

[Shiro♌]

How are you gonna have the computer run if you don't have any PSU?

[Xero_Daxter]

Back when I was a pleb I was playing games on Integrated Graphics.

[STARSCREAM🔰]

Your "opinion" is as misguided as Soundwave's loyalty to Megatron! The CPU may be the "brain," but the GPU is the spark that fuels the true power of gaming! Without it, your precious games would resemble Cybertron before my rise to prominence—dull and lifeless.
GPU carries that burden with ease while the CPU struggles to keep up. So unless your "gaming" consists of spreadsheets and text-based adventures, your take is as outdated as an Autobot peace treaty!

[Hammer Of Evil]

the power supply, and by proxy, the power plant is what gives it electrons to keep running.

shall we praise our electrical engineers and mechanical engineers that provide this bounty?

[Masque]

:laughs in i7-4790k:

[MinionJoe]

The only thing that REALLY matters in a gaming PC is single-core clock speed.

At least it does for games that only utilize one core and doesn't offload physics to the GPU.

But I stand by my statement.

[NW/RL]

Nearly all games, modern or otherwise, are GPU bounded. So in terms of gaming, no, it really is the GPU that's most important

[NW/RL]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

The only thing that REALLY matters in a gaming PC is single-core clock speed.

At least it does for games that only utilize one core and doesn't offload physics to the GPU.

But I stand by my statement.

It pisses me off to no end that game devs don't bother learning multithreading and nuke the performance of their game. I get that it's kinda hard at first, but literally just figure out what a mutex and semaphore are and it's ezpz (especially in languages that aren't C and actually have high-level abstractions for multi threading so you don't need to care)

[steven1mac]

The most important part is the RGB light, everyone knows computers run better with more of it.