Quote Originally Posted by RunawayPrisoner View Post
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.
Scratch what I said earlier about cache advantage, it's wrong. If crysis only supports two cores, then a Q9450 and E8400 should perform EXACTLY the same when at equivalent clock speeds. Why? Because I just did some research and the 12 mb cache of the Q9450 is not shared amongst all 4 processors. The Quads are just 2 "core-2-duo" processors on one chip right? So each pair of cores has access to it's own 6mb cache independent of the other.

So if crysis is only dual core supported, those two cores being utilized by Crysis only have 6mb of cache to work with... just like the E8400.