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Intel® Core2 Quad Processor
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Gaming:

The Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q6600 enables great performance on today's games, and provides extra compute engines to get you ready to rock on tomorrow's multithreaded games.
Great Gaming Today – Amazing Gaming Tomorrow

3DMark*06 - CPU Test is an industry-standard 3D graphics benchmark from FutureMark* that uses DirectX* 9.0 shader models and complex, game-like 3D scenes to evaluate PC platforms. The CPU Test measures the contribution of the processor on 3D graphics performance while the Game Test measures simulated game performance.

3DMark06 – CPU Test can be used to represent immersive gaming. In the near future, games will use multiple cores to create an immersive gaming experience. Multiple core processors like the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q6600 have additional cores to run Artificial Intelligence algorithms and calculate Physics for numerous objects in the game. 3DMark06 – CPU test measures a processor’s ability to run Artificial Intelligence and Physics on multiple cores and therefore can provide some insight into how a processor may perform on future immersive games.

3DMark* 2006 - CPU Test

Quake* 4 v1.2 is first-person shooter computer game from Raven* Software/Activision*. We run a time demo to evaluate the CPU's contribution to the average frame rate (frames per second). Time demo tests do not provide a full measure of real game play.

From the graph you can see that all three processors significantly exceed 85 frames per second. Thus they all deliver an excellent gaming experience on one of today's popular games.

Quake 4

F.E.A.R* v1.05 from Day 1/Sierra Valve* is a popular first person shooter game where we run a game scenario to assess the CPU's contribution to the average frame rate (frames per second). From the graph you can see that all three processors significantly exceed 85 frames per second. Thus they all deliver an excellent gaming experience on one of today's popular games.

F.E.A.R

Gaming Performance
Processor and 3DMark*06 3DMark*06 - CPU Test Performance Delta
Intel® Core™2 Quad
Processor Q6600
3529 +101%
faster
Intel® Core™2 Duo
Processor E6700
2301 +31%
faster
Intel® Pentium® D
Processor 960
1752 Baseline
Processor and Game Quake* 4 v1.2
Performance Delta
Intel® Core™2 Quad
Processor Q6600
261
frames/sec
+35%
faster
Intel® Core™2 Duo
Processor E6700
281
frames/sec
+45%
faster
Intel® Pentium® D
Processor 960
194
frames/sec
Baseline
Processor and Game F.E.A.R* v1.05
Performance Delta
Intel® Core™2 Quad
Processor Q6600
200
frames/sec
+61%
faster
Intel® Core™2 Duo
Processor E6700
221
frames/sec
+78%
faster
Intel® Pentium® D
Processor 960
124
frames/sec
Baseline

Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit www.intel.com/performance/resources/limits.htm or call (U.S.) 1-800-628-8686 or 1-916-356-3104.

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