Dual v Quad

[Rattlehead]

I'm not totally convinced a fast CPU makes any real difference in this game or indeed in any other graphically intensive game, especially at higher resolutions like 1900x1080. At that point, in my experience, the game becomes GPU bound.

For games optimized for mutlicore CPUs it's nice to have a quad core though, but until this game is optimized for that a dual core is fine.

I'm running a dual core myself and am enjoying smooth framerates (40+ at 1000m or higher) over land with all settings on high or medium. But then again I think my graphics card is taking most of the load anyway. (5870)

Put it this way, I'd rather have a fast graphics card than a fast Cpu for this game if you plan on running at high resolutions.