You can't bench a system based on a game, when we're talking about cpu, when the majority of the games benchmark is coming from the gpu.
If you want to talk graphics cards, we can talk crysis ratings all you want, it doesn't have that much bearing on the quality of the cpu. You're trying to compare apples with oranges.
Crystalmark is a Japanese benchmark software.
OK, let's break this down:
- You want a PC to play games on
- There is proof that buying a cheaper CPU/platform makes no difference in game performance
- I have provided this proof
- With the money you save from the cheaper CPU, you can buy a better GPU and end up with a system that does better at what you want it to do, which is play games, or you can put the money in your pocket and have the same game performance as the more expensive CPU
- You are ignoring this proof because even though you want to play games on your computer, you want to spend more money because...
What am I missing here? Fill me in.