Quote Originally Posted by hollo View Post
3d'06 is AMD/ATI biased anyway

check out 3ghz conroe vs 3ghz k8 in 3d'06 cpu http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=875&chart=419
and 3d'06 graphics http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=875&chart=418
they're closer on that benchmark than most of the others you can choose.

and compare HD2900xt xfire in 3d'06 SM2.0 http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphi...=804&chart=372
and 3d'06 HDR/SM3.0 http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphi...=804&chart=377
where HD2900xt xfire is right behind 8800GTX SLI..

..with overall game fps http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphi...=804&chart=378 where HD2900xt xfire is waaay behind...

slightly AMD biased, and very ATI biased imo

ontopic: so if opteron's losing to xeon in an AMD biased benchmark that isn't such a good sign (for desktop users). xeon takes a bigger performance hit from using fb-dimms instead of ddr2 than opteron does from using registered ddr2 instead of normal ddr2, so it won't look any better when its phenom vs c2q.
Dumb statement as usual...
2900 Crossfire is also behind X1950XT Crossfire with overall game fps. So the point is what? Using VGA charts totally drivers dépendant to conclude on CPU is totally pointless.