Is this review article right..?

[halz]

An old benchmark between the Core2 and FX-62..

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTEwOCwzLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The article starts off by saying how alot of benchmark sites lie about results and how unrealistic it is that gamers play games at 800x600, etc, etc.. Thats all fine and dandy. Yet, the article is guitly of lying and showing just how useless benchmarks are of different CPUs when the video card is the bottleneck.

In the link above, note the 'Shadows at 5th Notch on Slider' for the Intel chips and 'Shadows at 3rd Notch on Slider' for the AMD chip.. Why does this discrepency exist, and why hasn't it been fixed for over 3 months? And what conclusion does the article actually reach by placing two different CPUs to each other with a common video card? The same conclusions would have been reached even if a Voodoo2 was used..

This sort of misinformation should be removed from a respectable website, it only confuses readers who seek an unbiased source of information, right?

edit.. I had an account on these forums since the days of 3dfiles, but I guess it was lost with a DB crash. Please don't take this post as troll-bait..

 

[drizzt81]

An old benchmark between the Core2 and FX-62..

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTEwOCwzLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The article starts off by saying how alot of benchmark sites lie about results and how unrealistic it is that gamers play games at 800x600, etc, etc.. Thats all fine and dandy. Yet, the article is guitly of lying and showing just how useless benchmarks are of different CPUs when the video card is the bottleneck.

Did you not just answer your own question?
Say you have $500 for an upgrade. What's it going to be: a Core2 or a 7950GX2? The article shows clearly that, if you are a gamer, you should get the video card, since the CPU upgrade is going to do nothing for your gaming performance.

I cannot answer any of the other questions, I am not the author of the article.