Intel's Core 2 Quadro Kentsfield: Four Cores on a Rampage

Test Setup

We used two Western Digital WD1500 Raptor-X hard drives at 10,000 RPM. We always use one drive for read operations, while the second one takes care of large write operations.

All systems were equipped with 2 GB of memory.

The DDR2 memory CM2X-1024-6400C3 is from Corsair and is operated at CL4-4-4-8.

Since some benchmarks require a soundcard, the test systems are decked out with the Terratec Aureon Space 7.1.

All CPUs were tested with the GV-RX19X512VB-HRH (ATI X1900XTX) from Gigabyte. An ATI Radeon X300 was used solely for the power consumption measurements.