why not 3dMark Performance?

[joshwaloveslotr]

i have a question. i'm going to be getting oblivion in the next week or so and i see all of these posts about "will it run on my comp" and i'm wondering, why can't we just post our 3dMark scores and see how it is related to the performance of oblivion. i say this because i have a 2.8ghz oced and a 9800xt oced a bit with a gig of low latency ram and i really want to know how the 9800xt will fair. can't we just be like "hey, if you get 6500 marks in 3d mark you should be able to run with these settings turned on"