Puzzling?

[muon]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007/05/11/system_builder_marathon_uk/page10.html

Can anyone explain what is happening here?

So E6600 and a top 965p mobo against an x2 3800 with a top nforce 4 mobo.

Nforce motherboards actually better? Once the situation becomes GPU limited, the 8800gtx is considerably better on the nforce chipset.

 

[Hxc]

Its using a GTX?

 

[muon]

Its using a GTX?

Yep, should read better.

I thought there were GTXs in both.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yes its Toms.

 

[willhub]

Is the Mid priced one the High end on the graphics charts and beating an 8800GTX due to the CPU even tho its got a GTS in?

 

[muon]

Is the Mid priced one the High end on the graphics charts and beating an 8800GTX due to the CPU even tho its got a GTS in?

The question theyre asking is whether it is actually worth spending a lot on a cpu if you want to game a lot. The point is, the cheaper and unbalanced machine is a much better gaming machine at higher resolutions.

 

[Uriel]

Horses for courses. Basically tells us we need a good graphics card if we want to game a high resolutions.

I wonder how many people run a gtx at 1280x1024 though?