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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)

F.E.A.R.

Screenshot from Guru of 3D's Benchmark

Guru of 3D Benchmark: 1024 x 768 No AA resolution, Medium Quality

Call of Duty2

Custom Demo: 640 x 480, Model Detail: Normal; Zfeather Smoke: Everything: Number of Corpses: Insane

As mentioned on the last page, even setting the resolution and quality to halfway decent levels makes the CPU an irrelevant factor, despite the fact that the graphics solutions we were using, that is GeForce 7800GT in SLI configuration are still pretty much cutting edge. The Prey benchmark results tell a pretty convincing tale of this fact. Needless to say that all of the benchmark results shown there are to close to each other that there is virtually no way of noticing any difference with respect to "Game Experience". There are, however, other genres of game, for example Sims or possibly Flight Simulators that may experience more benefit from better CPU horse power.

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