Quote Originally Posted by marten_larsson View Post
Even if the performance gain is less than 0,1% it does not justify the difference in setups! No one would EVER conduct a serious research with such lacking method, or at least not any serious research. If the memories don't have to be the same speed or timings, why bother with the same GFX? Or PSU? You use as standardised equipment as possible to reduce number of potential errors. It's just stupid to defend his choice of hardware - no one would ever "allow" a PII to outrun an i7 simply because the first uses a 4870X2 while the latter has a 8600GS and 512MB of RAM in a review and not call it biased (because it would have been, just as this one).

If he didn't get the 1066 memory to work on the PII, why not using the same 800 on the C2Q? If the performance loss/gain is close to nothing - what sense does it make to make them different?! If one wants to be taken seriously, the reviews have to have at least a bit scientific approach. This one clearly lacks quite many of those requirements.
Agreed. The difference in memory speed and especially memory size is completely unacceptable, even if there are no gains whatsoever.