i totally see your point. The counter-point is that viewing angles are not critical for gaming unless you have a Kinnect attached to your PC and are jumping all over, and colors also don't matter much for gaming. Many devs choose to exaggerate colors.

Now if you are working as a professional designer, you need an appropriate display and TN doesn't cut it. If you are a professional gamer, you will need a 120Hz display and IPS is too slow.

I agree, each individual may have different subjective tastes and tolerances and why blanket and sweeping views have no logic to me.

IPS is much more pleasant for anyone watching while you play though, viewing angle matters there. Not a big thing but still, I often have friends around while gaming.

i hate people watching me play


Neither you nor i are "correct". Nor are we wrong. There is no universal answer, 'one fits all'; that is the only certainty
--C'est la vie

I've been hard at work benching (still not finished yet though), and decided to share progress so far.

Makes for very interesting reading, the behaviour of Kepler on an AMD system is quite bizarre at times, take particular note of the 2560x1600 scores vs 1920x1200 in quite a few of the benches. Yes, I've double and triple checked all my work, and I haven't mixed resolutions up and anything silly like that, this is what has taken so long (apart from the fact that this much benching really does eat up time) and has been doing my head in trying to make sense of it all.



I'm off to bed now, my head hurts for some reason!

Thanks for sharing!

Greg it seems that 940 is bottle necking the 670 sli

The Tech Report now does benching that shows that both Phenom II and Bulldozer really bottleneck modern cards. You better have an overclock well in excess of 4GHz to stay relevant.
-- want proof? AMD's *own* benches use an Intel CPU to show off HD 7970

Yeah, I kind of figured that. I don't think my Phenom II 940 is going to hit 4 gig though. It gets stressed out enough doing 3.4 to match the 965.

Good info for an upgrader though. Shows they need to update their CPU.

I take back what I said. These are great benchmarks.

I'm really surprised that AMD can't develop a killer gaming CPU. That should be their focus right now, or at least part of it. It would really compliment their GPUs. I would go all AMD with my rig if I could.