| Intel Clovertown Quad Core Processor Review |
| Written by WoobiaEroveva | ||||||||
Page 6 of 6 ConclusionBeing used to my humble Core 2 Duo E6300 rig, I was amazed at how responsive our Clovertown setup was, especially during multitasking. No matter how much load was put on the processor, you could feel it effortlessly glide through any application.In benchmarks, the performance difference between the Clovertown CPUs and the lesser E6700 at the same speeds ranged from 300% to 0%. Synthetic benchmarks faired better, especially the SiSoft CPU arithmetic and multimedia benchmarks, however as far as real world performance goes, only archiving saw a notable improvement. Video encoding and 3D apps would no doubt see large improvements. Photoshop was sublime in use. For gamers, there's little if any reason to go quad core let alone octal core. Unfortunately, most real world software applications don't even make use of 2 cores let alone 8. Whilst there's no denying that Clovertown is very impressive, the benefit to most enthusiasts would be lost as most applications still can't take advantage of the extra power of multiple core systems. Whilst progress is being made in this aspect, notably upcoming games and HDCP in Windows Vista, it'll be quite some time before mainstream users look towards this kind of technology.
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