Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Review

Testing:

Sisoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful. For this benchmark, I will be running a broad spectrum of tests to gauge the performance of key areas of the motherboards.

Processor Arithmetic

Multi-Core Efficiency

Memory Bandwidth

Memory Latency

Cache and Memory

File System

Physical Disks

Power Management Efficiency

Sandra tests a system as a whole so a user can get a better idea of the complete setup instead of individual components. Even though the E8500 was not as fast as the Q6600, for having less L2 cache and half of the cores, it was a strong fight.