Sandra XII
Sandra XII is far more advanced than PC Mark 2005, and shows off the quad-core goodness of the former System Builder Marathon PC.
Intel often leads AMD in the standardization of multimedia extensions, yet it’s still surprising to see the $500 Gaming PC’s overclocked dual-core with so large an advantage over the SBM system’s quad.
Once again we see the advantage of the overclocked $500 machine’s high FSB, which was also enhanced by dropping the memory’s timings slightly. Both machines used the same RAM!