Quote Originally Posted by dum View Post
I may be wrong but having, gone from my e6600 to a q9550 seem to help, maybe having the same bus speed as the mobo, I had my 4890 with e6600 3dmark06 score was 11280, with the q9550 I am now pushing 16000
If you factor out the "cpu score" the results will be much closer.
Also compare the frames per second in the procyon/forest/etc.