Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
You mean like these synthetic benchmarks?

Q6600 2.4GHz --> i5 2.4GHz = 20% performance bump.
Q9450 2.66GHz --> i5 2.4GH.
I consider it ancient. I have one, hell, it runs two of my characters in my 5man team. So I guess I'm a jackass to myself?

Also, why did you link that benchmark? The real benchmarks would be 3d games, which, clock-for-clock, the i5 slaughters the q6600. I have an i7, the performance increase over my overclocked q6600 was exponential - in fraps, vegas, acid 4.0.

I'd love to hear why you think the q6600 is such great architecture compared to an i5.