Well, not sure that thats what it should be called, but here's what I mean:
Someone with a top of the line motherboard and a 3200+ Athlon would definitely get hs money's worth by buying, say, a Radeon 9800 pro. On the other hand, someone with a relatively old motherboard, running a 2400+ Athlon on a 266Mhz bus might bottleneck the card so much, that it simply would not be worth the price. This person might get almost the same results out of, say, a 9500 Pro (this is an ignorant guess, I might be completely wrong), especially if he or she does not worry too mch about AA or AF. I think it would be highly useful if reviewers put this kind of scaling information in their review...it seems they usually test with the fastest CPU possible, and very few people out there would actually have that.
Someone with a top of the line motherboard and a 3200+ Athlon would definitely get hs money's worth by buying, say, a Radeon 9800 pro. On the other hand, someone with a relatively old motherboard, running a 2400+ Athlon on a 266Mhz bus might bottleneck the card so much, that it simply would not be worth the price. This person might get almost the same results out of, say, a 9500 Pro (this is an ignorant guess, I might be completely wrong), especially if he or she does not worry too mch about AA or AF. I think it would be highly useful if reviewers put this kind of scaling information in their review...it seems they usually test with the fastest CPU possible, and very few people out there would actually have that.
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