The gang over at the TechReport have noticed what I've been noticing lately as an increasing trend in video card benchmarking: the cards are, more & more often, being tested at resolutions higher than 1600X1200. I notice things like this, & then I think back to the survey with 300,000+ results that Valve held at the release of HL2 that basically said that the vast majority of gamers out there today are playing with GF4MX cards...

"Some of our readers requested a different approach, asking us to test the cards at ultra-high resolutions, including the big kahuna, 2048x1536. We're obliging sorts of fellows, so we set out to locate and purchase a monitor capable of running at this almost otherworldly screen resolution. A hundred bucks and a brush with a hernia later, an enormous 22" aperture grill monitor sits atop the Damage Labs test bench, causing it to bow slightly downward. (OK, so I had to place the monitor over two support legs, so the end of the table didn't snap off.)"