is there any point to synthetic benchmarks ?

i see all these programs designed to push hardware such as 3d mark /sisoft sandra etc and i think is there any point to them ?  sure its nice to see what the hard ware could be capable off but in the end you need REAL world programs to test what the hardware can do programs/games that people actually use day in day out

i dont think anyone would buy a graphics card to run 3dmark what do i care if it runs test 2 at 60fps ...no it will be to play the witcher 2 or skyrim for example

Also i suspect companys will tailor there drivers to do better in a synthetic benchmark then a real world program

All i ask is pc hardware review sites please just do real world stuff

i wonder

Always wondered with these big companies like sony nintendo and microsoft why do they do stupid things with so much money invested and far far smarter people then i will ever be how do they muck things up so much.

Take nintendo before the 3ds was launch they categorically stated that there would be no games drought....and lo and behold there is a games drought.

Sony the vita price point was shown and everyone inc me was happy...then they release the prices for the memory cards which frankly turns a attractive price point far less so...not to mention there 3g pricing point (250 to 2gb i would use that in a day)

Red ring off death already on my 4 xbox think enough said about that

PC hardware...the eternal struggle

For many many years i have had a pc and been upgrading i never have the best spec its always  not to bad.

My problem has always been the price to performance ratio and when newer hardware comes out its such a small improvement (unless your willing to pay the big bucks) i have had a nvidia 460 for the past couple of years and since then the price has not really dropped and hardware that has come out since then (and probably in the next few months ) the newer hardware for the same amount of money dont really offer that much of a increase.

Was reading a review of a  graphics card and in that review there was tons of jargon about memory mhz speed and how specs wise it was better then what i had at the moment and in a comparison with specs it was better but in the end where it really matters is frame rates and when you compare that is a extra 10fps really worth forking out nearly 200 euro.

i think with hardware the older stuff should be price reduced a lot more and newer hardware should offerer a bigger increase in performance