Q9450 certainly faster than a Q6600

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I'm having a mini gaming session with a few friends. One of them has an almost identical system; we both have quad core, 4gb RAM, 8800GTX. His PC has a Q6600 which is mildly overclocked (not sure the exact speed - I'll find out later but he won't comeout of his game to check lol). Mine is the Q9450 running at completely stock speed due to a poor motherboard.

He also has RAID0 while I am running a standard drive.

Mine is beating his into new levels and game loading significantly. It must be the extra cache but I'm quite surprised how much faster mine is in real life.

 

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game loading doesn't have much to do with CPU speed. More about HD random access times and RAM

I thought that too. but he has RAID0. Memory is the same.

 

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So let me get this straight, you're comparing LOAD times and concluding that one CPU is better than the other on different boards/HD/RAID set-up's ? The only thing that's certain about this post is you're not aware of how flawed your logic is.

Platter density, cluster size, chipset, drivers, drive speed and cache, distribution of files and a whole host of other variables involved have been overlooked and you're using an HD benchmark to compare CPU's. If you want t9o back up your statement get your friend to run benchmarks on his rig then pull the chip and put yours in and do the same, then you can tell us what's fastest in those benchmarks.

No, really can't be bothered. People can take or leave my anecdotal feedback. It might be right or it might be wrong but I really don't care about "backing up my statement"

 

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Which one of you is hosting? On paper his should be faster, due to the raid more than anything else

Quakelive is one example. So neither is hosting. Same everything, including network connection.

 

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I have read some BS posts in my time on ocuk but this one takes the biscuit.

The difference clock for clock of a Q6600 and Stock Q9450 is 200mhz

So a 2.8ghz Q9450 perfroms the same as a 3ghz Q6600.

Your analysis is dull,inconculsive and BS

I am sorry I am not as l33t as you