Quote Originally Posted by massman View Post
And of course everyone who buys a new processor is intended to use it at 100% load all the time.

Real world =/= maximum load. Real world = internet, gaming, video editing, ...
That is true and I do agree with you on that point BUT to gage the effectiveness of a processor or shall we say rate it against others the only reasonable way to do so is to have both run the same app and compare them.. As in the benchmarks that we run.
I assume your familar with benchmarks?