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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: SMP and the New Intel Kentsfield Key Features Power Management and Cache Questions Test Setup, Benchmark Overview Power Consumption Memory System 3D Rendering: TrueSpace POV-Ray 3.7 Cinebench 2003 DVD Shrink, Dr DivX & Mainconcept H.264 Futuremarks FarCry, DOOM3 F.E.A.R. Prey, Call of Duty2 Final Thoughts Give Us Some Feedback on this Review
Intel's Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6700 Codename "Kentsfield"
(Review by MS, November 1, 2006)

FarCry

Screenshot from FarCry's Steam level featuring 6 bots

FarCry: 1024x768 resolution Frames per second, higher is better

DOOM3

It is somewhat ironic that the force that drives most of the PC development, namely gaming, lags most in terms of optimization for SMP. Many games are capable of using two cores, however, four cores are a bit too much to handle. More important, though is the fact that in order to see any differences at all, the resolution and quality need to be turned down to the lowest possible level in order to eliminate the bottleneck of the graphics processors.

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