Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Review

Testing:

Call of Juarez is a DirectX10 First Person Shooter set in the Wild West of the late 1800s. The game is inspired in part by the movies of the Wild West genre of the seventies and eighties. The game can be played as both single player and multiplayer. The game focuses on realistic graphics and gameplay designed to take advantage of the latest video cards on the market.

The settings we will use are listed below.

• Details: High
• Shadowmap size 2048x2048
• Shadow Quality: Normal
• Anti Aliasing: MSAA 4X

There was little gain in performance between the Intel offerings at all of the resolutions. The Q9450 outperformed the QX9770 and Q6600 at the 1680x 1050 resolution. This just goes to show that CPU speed is not everything in gaming.