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Hardocp core 2 duo article

Its odd how it all works out. All of this talk of 100% increases in Oblivion etc and really what we have in the real world is a processor that is obviously faster but bottlenecked by the GPU for those of us running our games at 1600x1200+.

Where Intel does win is the price. I'm not desperate now to go out and get Conroe straight away after seeing these scores but when I do upgrade next it will be to Intel. 200ish notes for a processor performing on par with the FX-62 is pretty amazing. I can't imagine the price drops will bring the top end AMD stuff down to those sorts of prices.
 
Right, I think I finally get it. You've got to wonder then what the point is of all these hardware sites, who should know better really, doing benchmarks at 800*600 when no one games in that res anymore, especially not on the uber-GPUs they're testing with. Joe Public is going to see those benchies and assume they'll get those sort of increases under all conditions.

The 1600*1200 4xAA figures at Toms really tell a story, apart from the CPU intensive flight-sim Pacific Fighters, none of the games benefit from the extra CPU power -

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/intel_core_2_performance/page9.asp
 
fish99 said:
Right, I think I finally get it. You've got to wonder then what the point is of all these hardware sites, who should know better really, doing benchmarks at 800*600 when no one games in that res anymore, especially not on the uber-GPUs they're testing with. Joe Public is going to see those benchies and assume they'll get those sort of increases under all conditions.

The 1600*1200 4xAA figures at Toms really tell a story, apart from the CPU intensive flight-sim Pacific Fighters, none of the games benefit from the extra CPU power -

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/intel_core_2_performance/page9.asp
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Also in the Pacific Fighters benchies they're running them without AA & AF. If they ran them at 4xAA, 8xAF like they have for all the other gaming benchies the Pacific Fighters scores would be a lot closer.
 
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