AMD Phenom II Review Thread

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I completely fail to see the point in low res/LOD/filtering gaming benchmarks.
I guess someone wants to believe the age-old prophecy of the elusive "future CPU intensive games". Today we're playing yesterdays "future games" and so far those proverbial CPU intensive titles are nowhere to be seen. When we look at the game benches done on realworld settings we see CPU has little bearing on the results. Once CPU becomes a bottleneck FPS is already so high nobody gives a turd about what the FPS actually is as it's through the roof.
What is that 40% FPS advantage worth when frame rates float around 100FPS?

You got owned, and instead of showing some data to back up your argument

How does steam stats prove he's wrong?
Right, they don't. For all we know, most of those sub-SXGA users could be running those single cores that still cover one third of the surveyed systems. And you know what? That's the most likely scenario. No far-fetched assumptions needed to deduct that.

90% of QC buyers don't have a clue of what they're having.

anyone using 1024x768 resolution most likely doesn't know what a core is or is concerned with it.

you instead start bashing users with 1024x768 resolution? Talk is cheap, start showing some hard facts.

So it's more plausible 90% of QC users don't know what they have but it's entirely plausible people with 10 year old monitors are educated "power users"?