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That [H] review is completely flawed for various reasons.
They call this a "real world" test, but chose to only bench at one resolution? So everyone in the "real world" games at 1600x1200? I would say that based on the popularity of LCD's, benching at 1280x1024 is extremely relevant.
They do not emphasize the fact that, whether or not we call it a GPU bottleneck or not, there is undoubtedly a GPU cap at high resolutions. All this article does is once again prove that point more than anything else.
If they wanted to show "real world" high resolution gaming, why not include SLY/Xfire benches? This is yet another situation where the much stronger processing power of Conroe would show its strength.
Any good review should show results with different resolutions and settings and then let the reader decide. Remember that this was supposed to be a CPU review, not a GPU review (which it ended up more resembeling). This article was obliviously just written with an agenda.
This is the first review I have seen [H] do this way, why start with Conroe? This same argument could have been made with A64 vs. P4, but of course in those reviews all resolutions were shown and the A64 was "the King of Gaming." Why all of a sudden is the opinion that "oh, the CPU doesn't really matter in gaming anyways"?
Anyways, there are heaps of reviews out there, and it really takes looking at many of them to get the whole picture. It is incredibly misleading to try to create an opinion from this review alone.
They call this a "real world" test, but chose to only bench at one resolution? So everyone in the "real world" games at 1600x1200? I would say that based on the popularity of LCD's, benching at 1280x1024 is extremely relevant.
They do not emphasize the fact that, whether or not we call it a GPU bottleneck or not, there is undoubtedly a GPU cap at high resolutions. All this article does is once again prove that point more than anything else.
If they wanted to show "real world" high resolution gaming, why not include SLY/Xfire benches? This is yet another situation where the much stronger processing power of Conroe would show its strength.
Any good review should show results with different resolutions and settings and then let the reader decide. Remember that this was supposed to be a CPU review, not a GPU review (which it ended up more resembeling). This article was obliviously just written with an agenda.
This is the first review I have seen [H] do this way, why start with Conroe? This same argument could have been made with A64 vs. P4, but of course in those reviews all resolutions were shown and the A64 was "the King of Gaming." Why all of a sudden is the opinion that "oh, the CPU doesn't really matter in gaming anyways"?
Anyways, there are heaps of reviews out there, and it really takes looking at many of them to get the whole picture. It is incredibly misleading to try to create an opinion from this review alone.