CPU and GPU Performance/Cost Analysis

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"A vocal contingent of our readers has long been asking for a closer look at price-performance issues, and we think we've cooked up some novel ways of expressing that data that may make it feasible. So we've decided to give it a shot.
Fortuitously, AMD and Intel both took an axe to their prices last month, and we recently added Intel's $113 Core 2 Duo E4300 to our constellation of test results, so now seems like a particularly appropriate time to consider performance per dollar. Join us as we look at the value proposition of 16 CPUs, from the Athlon 64 X2 3600+ all the way up to the Core 2 Extreme QX6800, across a wide range of games, applications, and even energy efficiency tests. Some of what we found surprised us, and it may change the way you think about CPU value. "
in, http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/pricevperf/index.x?pg=1

These graphics are handy:

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Today's graphics cards: the value angle
How much GPU does your dollar get you?

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[daglesj]

So essentially there is no point buying top end CPUs as any of them will give a suitable level of perfomance.

Much as I suspected. They have to stop reviewing CPUs as if its still 1998.

GPU needs a little more consideration but I feel that what screen size you have has more importance in your choice factor.

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Today's processors: the value angle
When performance meets price, round two

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The graphs look pretty, but simply dividing the frame rate by the price would give a factor that could rank them in value order more easily.