Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
I think you are misreading the data, in all but the COH a 2.93 GHz Nehalem is faster than a QX9770 ... a 2.66 Nehalem will be roughly the same as a QX9770 or better... with the exception of what is shown in some games (COH, WOC, COD4) ... but even these will be significantly faster than a Q6600.

The Crysis benchmark is on load times, the rest are synthetics, rendering, and file compression software.

Now, the question is really is the application you are looking for worth the money in the upgrade ... if your idea of a computer is simply gaming, regardless of Q6600, Core i7, Phenom what ever... the answer to the question is actaully no ... that is because how you play the game is GPU determined, not CPU determined.

Jack
JJ, is the low hanging fruit all gone?

Or they just figured out that this would be the easiest way of increasing share and profit without risk... I mean, we all know what they're trying to dethrone here.