Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Review

Testing:

3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest is begun. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.

Settings:

• SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
• CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
• HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze

The Q9450 again outperforms the Q6600. The Q6600 falls anywhere between 400 to 900+ points behind the Q9450, a difference that is not wholly dependent on the CPU speed as 266MHz will not make that kind of difference possible.