The thing that gets me is for all the attention gamers put on benchmarks when a new game or bit of hardware comes out to compare them, you never see benchmarks

The thing that gets me is for all the attention gamers put on benchmarks when a new game or bit of hardware comes out to compare them, you never see benchmarks for this class of tweaks. If the benefit was so obvious, it should be easy and clear to demonstrate/repeat. Over the years a huge variety of these geek equivalent to old wives tales have accumulated, and a lot of them persist.