Mhm. Hell, mines still going strong and I just bumped up from 4.2 to 4.5. If I can keep this up till the next gen chips/mobos, I'll be happy.
It's a cpu comparison. The low resolution prevents gpu bound situations from tainting the results.
Lower resolutions are less GPU dependent and more CPU dependent. in this case the main test subject are CPU's, thus 720p is perfectly fine in these tests.
ITT: People who don't know what they are looking at.
Here's something funny for ya. Mine is still at stock and I haven't felt the need to OC it at all!
What he said....There has been no significant change in the computer world to warrant super overclocks for gaming or have anything better than a 580 GTX in your computer.... If you have anything above that all it really is is just future proofing ... All this new stuff coming out...
my thoughts aswell and for the love of god, turning down settings doesnt put more stress on the cpu, godI am not sure what the point of this article is. If they wanted to do something gaming/multitasking relevant (what gaming performance you get while running related/working programs that is) they should have benched games while skype/ventrillo/steam/mouse software/antivirus-antispyware/recording/streaming are running and not stuff like luxmark/image viewers. And do it in a proper resolution ,as higher graphical settings stress processors more due to multithreaded rendering.