Sure, we could have thrown it in a computer with 3 – GTX 295’s and found the bottle neck, but that wasn’t the point of these tests. So what we did is put an upper-middle grade GPU with an upper middle grade processor to see how it would perform.
They’re usually not going to have 2 – GTX295’s in SLI. Most people that go and buy a Q9400 are just doing so to have a Quad Core. While I Do agree with you, the bottleneck of games is in the GPU, there comes a point where we try to push reality into the picture. Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (Intel® SIPP) Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q9400 (6M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB) We’ll check out it’s underlying technologies as well as check see how it fares on the bench after the break. The Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 Processor is one such processor featuring a 2.66 GHz clock speed and 6MB of L2 cache.
The Q9xxx series introduced faster 1333 MHz front side buses, SSE4 and the aforementioned 45nm manufacturing process. These were Intel’s long waited 45nm quad-core processors code-named, Yorkfield. In March of 2008, Intel released their Core 2 Quad Q9000 series of processors.
