Is this CPU great for Starcraft2? (specs b4 I $)

PROCESSOR & GRAPHICS CARD: AMD Phenom™ II X6 1045T + ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB

OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English

MEMORY: 6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMS

HARD DRIVE 1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive

MONITOR Dell IN2020M 20-inch HD Widescreen Monitor with LED

SOUND CARD THX® TruStudio PC™

Dell: $865 w/ 20" monitor

So I know I'm way late to the sc2 party... but I can't wait. Problem is my pc just died last night

This is the system I want.. question is will it run SC2 Maxed out? and speculatory will it work on Diablo 3?

The only real question I think is the processor, just b/c I don't know the equivalency for amd and intel ergo not able to cross reference the recommended settings listed on the SC2 site.

Is that a decent deal or no?

Thanks in advance!

 

It'll run rather nicely.

I don't think specs for D3 have been solidly released, but it should as well.

 

i think its better to invest fewer money for cpu ... for example buy one quad core phenom 2
and spend the extra money for a better gpu

im speakin about Starcraft 2 .. if ur job needs the 6cores then its just fine !

 

Adding onto Lunatic's post, no games these days need 4 cores either. In fact, the majority of them are optimized for 2 cores, and often won't even use cores 3 and 4. YMMV.

 

Bear in mind that different games rely on different components to varying degrees. For example a simulator will generally rely on the CPU more than on the GPU (disregarding physx), while in an FPS it's the other way around. And if we assume you play all sorts of games (from your interest in D3) and approximate your CPU-GPU gaming need to 50-50 then the amount of video encoding, defragmenting, work and misc. stuff should decide the question.