Q6600 or E6850 ? Best mobo for Q660? - Consolidated thread

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In the bit-tech article, when testing Valve Particle Simulation, processors are perfecly ordered Quad > Duo > AMD:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200..._e6850_e6750/7

And it's based in the Source engine

Valve Particle Simulation:
Last November when we visited Valve Software's offices, the developer gave us a benchmark that shows off how the Source Engine can apply multi-threading to the problem of particle physics.

What is particle physics? Well, it's the interaction of micro-elements within the game - smoke, water, rain, fire. Valve's Tom Leonard told us that "with multi-core, you can have more complicated systems. You can have smoke that drifts off, bounces off the ceiling and then out the door."

Also remarkably is the gape between Q6600 (79.7fps) and E6850 (55.0fps), it's a 44% faster with 25% less mhz! (2.4 vs 3.0)

Same happens with POV Raytracing, and this time I'm really impressed on the implementation

Ray tracing is another scenario where you're going to see some quite fantastic performance scaling. Taking the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 and Core 2 Duo E6850 as an example, we saw a 99.2 percent performance increase thanks to doubling the number of cores. The benefit of going from one to four cores was 397 percent, so almost none of the available performance is wasted away.

So basically, you double the cores, you get double the performance. I wish this were in all case scenarios