I just ran the Cinebench scene render benchmark with my new Q6600. I'm a 3dsmax user myself but I chose Cinebench because it does a single-cpu baseline test as well. Interesting results:
My previous system, Athlon XP 2500+ oc 3200+: 89 seconds
Q6600 (stock speed) single core baseline: 56 seconds
Q6600 4 cores: 18 seconds
And that's before overclocking. This is why anyone running multithreaded apps needs to forget about dual core
My previous system, Athlon XP 2500+ oc 3200+: 89 seconds
Q6600 (stock speed) single core baseline: 56 seconds
Q6600 4 cores: 18 seconds
And that's before overclocking. This is why anyone running multithreaded apps needs to forget about dual core