Quote Originally Posted by hirsch View Post
Ehm, why should that be embarrassing/funny/weird? As you probably know, most of the games out there (today) can't use more than 4 cores, in best case. And games dosen't benefit that much from CPU-power if it isn't the bottleneck - right? And what do you mean with this "People are extremely stupid and actually believe that price indicates performance"? In my point of view, price indicates performance VERY well. For example compare the i3-2100 to the i7-2600k - which have the best performance and cost the most... <--- PRICE indicate PERFORMANCE, end of that discussion!
Except it doesn't. See my previous example where the Gulftowns and SB-E's massively higher price clearly does not lead to higher gaming performance. See the higher clocked, cheaper Deneb quads that outperform the more expensive Thuban's.

Price does not equate to performance in gaming, but the general public has zero clue about that. All they will see is a much cheaper chip performing the same as an incredibly expensive chip. What did you say in your last few posts? Only gaming performance matters, and you are an "enthusiast" who would pay $1k for the best cpu? Did you buy Gulftown 18 months ago? Cuz until SB it WAS the fastest gaming cpu and still is in the higher threaded ones.