Originally Posted by
Ren Wo Xing
Actually, here's where you're wrong. The E6850, clocked at 3.0 ghz, is roughly analogous to Q6600 in price. Depending on the situation, the E6850 often outperforms the Q6600 in many applications which are not written to optimally allow maximum usage of the quad-core processor. Sure, the Q6600 outperforms it in a lot of benchmarks, but benchmarks are designed to put everything to its limits. This is why I say that efficiency and programming makes such a big difference. With your average game or your average software, the E6850 outperforms the Q6600; on the other hand, if you rip/record a lot of music, do a lot of animation, and other CPU-intensive and multi-threading capable software, the Q6600 will show big performance gains.