Here's my last piece for now.
Let's see how our FSB, memory, and cores count affect our gameplay quality with "gaming" settings ( Full Details, + AA/AF + Transp. AA )


As you can clearly see, Lost Planet uses about 2 cores.
Having a single-core CPU will result in lower FPS in some occasions ( not all the time ).
Lower FSB or higher FSB doesn't make a difference ( add that in the lower FSB tests here we also had the memory running at a lower frequency than in the higher FSB tests ) [ 200MHz FSB & RAM @ DDR3-800 8-7-6-21 vs 333MHz FSB & RAM @ DDR3-1333 8-7-6-21 ]
Our memory's performance also does pretty much nothing in real-life gaming settings.
Same settings DDR3-800 8-7-6-21 relaxed sub-timings vs DDR3-2000 7-7-6-21 fully tweaked = exact same performance.

So a Quad-Core Core 2 45nm @ 4GHz ( 333MHz FSB ) & RAM @ DDR3-1333 7-7-6-21 fully tweaked ram has the same performance with a Dual-Core Core 2 45nm @ 2GHz & RAM @ DDR3-800 8-7-6-21 relaxed sub-timings...