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PCMark Vantage:
PCMark resembles a lot to the 3DMark suite from FutureMark, except the fact that it includes many other tests like hard drive speed, memory and processor power, so it is considered as a system benchmark and not just a gaming benchmark.
Settings: PCMark Suite at default settings.
PCMark 7:
PCMark resembles a lot to the 3DMark suite from FutureMark, except the fact that it includes many other tests like hard drive speed, memory and processor power, so it is considered as a system benchmark and not just a gaming benchmark.
Settings: PCMark Suite at default settings.
Interestingly enough both PCMark Vantage and 7 appear to utilize only up to 8-threads, as beyond that point the performance relied solely on clock speeds as opposed to the core count. With this being the case, both the 3960X and 2600K virtually tied, while the lower clocked processors showed progressively slower performance. The importance of clock speeds was further evident in our tests after we overclocked our 3960X, as the results show the performance increased by roughly 20% in both benchmarks once the clock speed was boosted.
On the 10th page, it says you're testing Farcry 2 and Dirt 2....But the descriptions are for Warhead and Lost Planet respectively (and in the settings for the Dirt2/Lost Planet description on the same page, the resolutions are flipped around from 800x600 to 600x800) >_>
Maybe my next rig will be Core i7 3930K based (the cheaper of the two 6 core CPUs). Less L2 memory sucks a bit, but it is significantly cheaper. Of course, by the time I build a new computer a whole new line of CPUs after these will probably have come out XD