Quote Originally Posted by Nebulus View Post
At the same clock speed as an E8400, I would expect the Q9450 to be faster, simply because it has a 12 mb cache versus 6mb. As for crysis and quad core support, I'm not too sure. I've heard rumors that is is quad friendly but I can't verify that.
Well, it's definitely faster (just by a little bit) on my X3350 versus on the E8400. Another member and I had a little competition about that earlier, and I ended up using both my E8400 and X3350 on the same setup to test it out. Incidentally, the X3350 was faster by 1fps although on the E8400 at the same clocks, the graphics card was clocked a bit higher. If the rumor proves true... then at the same clock speed, we'd see the Q9450 outdoes the E8400 greatly in Crysis, maybe by up to 4fps or so.