Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
There are to many resolution to test, and such stuff usually is part of GFX tests and not cpu tests.
E.g. Im only interessted in 1920x1200, but since at that resolution most cards just reach its limit it wont tell you how good the cpu is and what you can expect if you later upgrade your gpu. (thats just my viewpoint on that topic)
yea it just seems with new gpus coming about once a year and new cpus coming about one every two years that if the cpus were equal at the higher resolutions then putting in a new video card wouldn't make that big of a difference if any. and you can always overclock too if your cpu becomes a bottleneck. i would be more interested than how it performs now than how it performs years from now when most likely ill have a new cpu anyway.
Quote Originally Posted by qurious63ss View Post
What do you mean by that? Again, I could be wrong but at higher resolutions you actually testing the GPU and not the CPU since the GPU becomes the bottleneck.
what i mean is that if a cpu wins in a benchmark at a lower resolution then it doesn't mean it will be better for gaming. i see testing it at a lower resolution more of a different test than a test that is finding out how futureproof it is. in one situation the cpu is dealing with a lot of small frames while in another its dealing with a lot less larger ones.