My point is that everyone does not have that setup and play at that res., and even so, might not want to disable detail quality to make game operational, as in that review...
But if you get better graphics, the Conroe lead gets much greater also.
And if your graphic card is lower end, then a fast CPU is less important.
After a certain point, 2GHz or so and at higher resolutions, the bottleneck is the GPU... But as you invest in higher performance graphic cards, or dual graphic cards then the faster CPU is needed to increase the FPS.
And Conroe boots and loads much faster than AMD too, which actual user experience is tied to general quickness of the PC, which is hard to benchmark but is evidenced by Conroe users statements...
Strangest thing is, if this was AMD with this killer chip, NO ONE WOULD BE STATING THAT EXTRA CPU POWER JUST DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!! :roll:
We all know there are other bottlenecks that affect performance, it is just humorous how the beaten ones feel they need whole articles dedicated to dispell Conroe's performance by selecting a system and resolution, and ignoring the other resolutions as a reference... that is biased.