Real-World Gaming CPU Comparison with 8800 GTX SLI
 

AMD and Intel head-to-head. With NVIDIA's 8800 series GPU supplying a big jump in performance over the last generation of video cards, we revisit just what these CPUs do for you when you are gaming. Is one truly better? The results have changed.

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if you have the money to buy 2x 8800GTX you would be not too smart to bundle it with a slower CPU...

the old rule still holds true once you got in the "affordable" GPU/CPU area, only very few FPS games are CPU dependent, RTS games also like CPU more