Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

[Hornet331]

Did you know how the processor works in games and how games are beeing developed?

i have more then 10 year experience as a gamer with games and various systems, so yes i dare to say i know how a processor works and what it influcences in games. For the second point i dont care, since i only play them i dont need to know what development method the use, be it classical project menagment or another style.

But facts and information that has been shown here seem to confirm that MIN FPS (maybe the lowest 1-3%) which would be the most important measurements on low res (640x480) is the most important test if you want to check how good the processor is for that game.
Single threaded games the processor is probably not any problem today. You can run ALL single threaded games on new processors. What matters is the video card.

Threaded games and the processor will be more important but all these average or max FPS is of no use if you want to test how the game behaves.

you blow the min fps as factor way out of porpotion, yes as a gamer i know how importnat min fps is and in fast first person shooter fps decide about who is winning and who is loosing.

But min fps is ONE, i repeat ONE point, lets take jacks fear benchmark as example:



http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=281

The amd rig @ 3ghz has higher min fps but lower avrg fps, as gamer i'll take higher avarage fps over a seconed (or less) lower min fps.