This is an excellent thread. Not everyone as shown in this thread upgrades at every generation of new CPUs. Me included see Q6600 LOL
I too got irritated with the low resolution benchmarks initially thinking along similar lines of WTF ID10T is still gaming at those numbers. But when you are really studying you should study all aspects of what your involved with. OK so we don't actually play at those res but if we know we can trick the bench into telling us useful info then we should use it. Put it in the think tank to add with other things we find out such as ways to stress the GPU. Then study each particular game to be played. Some are CPU intensive others are not. Just keep adding all the data together. I never ever base important decisions on one source anyway. Several reviews from different sources is always a good thing. The abnormalities usually show up like a sore thumb and then can be checked in more detail. Basically all erroneous info usually the oddball info you throw out if it cant be substantiated. Just as long as it is honest true factual etc data it can be used to evaluate, compare, and make an analysis. Isn't that what we try to do? We want honest in depth from every angle possible factual information to base our decisions on.
I am getting impatient myself waiting on BD so I recently started thinking about a SB i5 2500k. These are impressive. And I really like the caching thing with the small SSD to a large platter drive. This thread is really right up my ally as to should I wait to see if BD is a winner or not. If I can be patient.
the age old question, "Do I buy a CPU or a GPU?" If it's an SB CPU then get that 1st then get the GPU later.
Do you still think in my case (Q6600@3.6 and a HD4870) and BD just around the corner I should go SB now? Or get me a couple of 6850s and see what happens with BD before buying the CPU. The idea of BD coming soon has me wanting to get the cards for my new machine but that goes against the answer you give for "Do I buy a CPU or a GPU?"
