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Intel Q9650 3.00GHz Quad Core Processor
Whetstone Test:
As Wikipedia.com points out, a whetstone test "measures the floating-point arithmetic performance." This is much like SiSoft Sandra and some of our other benchmarks used in this review.
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Intel Q6700 @ 1066MHz |
Intel Q6700 @ 1333MHz |
Intel Q9650 @ 1333MHz |
Again, the Intel Q9650 beats out the Q6700 at both FSB values.
Overclocking:
We promised the folks over at Western Digital we wouldn't fry any more VelociRaptors by extreme overclocking, so we settled for a CPU preset overclock. Using the ASUS Extreme Tweaker program on our Striker II Extreme motherboard, we were given the following options: Overclock to QX9770, and Crazy.
Those two overclocks yielded the following:
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Intel Q9650 @ QX9770 |
Intel Q9650 @ Crazy |
The Q9650 operates at 3.19GHz with the QX9770 overclock, and at 3.51GHz with the Crazy option. We're pretty much guarenteed that it's stable since ASUS controls the overclock! Way to go Intel!
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