dohteM said:
By "cripples", I take it you meant "I built a rig that can't handle it"?
Seriously, running tests without AA is a totally pointless excercise as you'll only be disappointed when you start up a game and it's totally gimped compared to the benchmark results. You'll be saying to yourself (if you're stupid) "but I don't get it, my benchmark said I had 2295fps, why am I only getting 12fps here?"
In the photography world, controlled test shots can be referred to as 'pixel-peeping', looking way too hard at something without taking into account the real-world useability.
You can upgrade me to dickhead if it makes you feel better. The last time I cared what a nobody on the web thought of me was around 2001!