Quote Originally Posted by JaD View Post
Right. 'cause performance differences of different boards based on the same chipset are always huge and meaningful.
Picking some very fast numbers:

http://hothardware.com/articleimages...onsumption.PNG

over 20% in power consumption



http://hothardware.com/articleimages...Z68-LameMT.PNG

10% in performance



http://hothardware.com/articleimages...1/Z68-ETQW.PNG

20% in performance



http://media.bestofmicro.com/Y/0/307...l/image005.png

5% in performance



http://media.bestofmicro.com/Y/7/307...l/image012.png

10%



http://media.bestofmicro.com/Y/E/307...l/image019.png

10% in power consumption


http://media.bestofmicro.com/O/1/298...l/image021.png

10%



http://media.bestofmicro.com/O/3/298...l/image023.png

Noticeable temperature difference.


Sure, there are plenty of situations where the performance across boards IS very close.... but enough differences to make comparisons worthwhile.