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Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: November 4, 2006
Page: 3 of 13
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How We Tested

During our benchmarking sessions, we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions the only variable was the CPU being tested and the motherboard, when we benchmarked the CPU from AMD.
 
Hardware Configuration

Software Configuration

  • Windows XP Professional installed using NTFS
  • Service Pack 2
  • DirectX 9.0c

Driver Versions

  • NVIDIA video driver version: 91.47
  • Intel Inf chipset driver version (Intel): 8.0.1.1002
  • nForce 590 SLI driver version (AMD): 9.35
  • Audio driver version (Intel): Sigmatel 5.10.5143
  • Audio driver version (AMD): SoundMax 5.10.1.4490
  • LAN driver version (Intel): Intel Pro/1000 9.5.12.0
  • RAID driver version (Marvell, Intel): 1.1.0.38-beta
  • RAID driver version (Intel): 5.5.0.1035
  • RAID driver version (SiliconImage, AMD): 1.0.0.9

Used Software

We adopted a 3% error margin; thus, differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.

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