Quote Originally Posted by largon View Post
The tri-SLI 640x480 benchmark makes no sense. Sure, it shows how i7 dominates at resolutions that nobody has used since mid '90s, but such a benchmark has no bearing on realworld gaming performance. The problem is, based on such benchmarks some people will draw unfound conclusions that Deneb would be absolutely horrible for gaming and they would i7 get around double the FPS. But the situation would be totally different when realworld game settings and resolutions are used... "Surprisingly different".

But sure, it is a CPU benchmark. Nothing else. About as relevant as SuperPi.
Your post is what makes no sense whatsoever.Kyle tests all playable resolutions ; you just have to turn the page.

What does that tell us ?

Phenom , Phenom 2 and Core hit a limit with tri SLI ; the video cards can do more ; the CPUs can't.

Core i7 moves the limitation on the video cards ; who wants the latest uber high end graphic cards ( geforce 295 , etc ) needs a Nehalem to make the card shine.

In a sense , the test Kyle performed is more relevant than any other gaming test on other review sites.