Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
hmmmm what exactly does ai enabled do? does it reduce iq?
Leaving A.I. enabled in FarCry 2 benchmark does the following:

1) Allows the CPU performance ( not actual amount of cores, meaning a similarly clocked Core i7 920 with HT off will perform the same as a 920 with HT on ) to have a decent impact in the benchmark's performance results because it partially simulates normal gameplay ( as in the PC "calculates" the enemies & other "live" objects moves & artificial intelligence stuff ).

2) In short-term benchmarks it can introduce a lil' bit more discrepancy between the results ( but that gets covered by the 3 runs of the bench )

It's like the Unreal Tournament "flyby" ( rendering ) and "botmatch" ( rendering + AI ) benchmark modes.

Quote Originally Posted by neliz View Post
Yes, but why spend $2500 on the performance of a $100 card?
Why spend 500.000 on a Ferrari or even 1.000.000 on a Bugatti ?