Hardware Setup

• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (3GHz, 333MHzx9)
• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (3GHz, 333MHzx9)
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3GHz, 333MHzx9)
• Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 - Intel X38 Chipset
• 2 x 1GB GSkill PC8000 DDR2 Memories
• Sparkle GeForce 8800 GT (Core/Shader/Mem : 675 /1728/900Mhz)
• Verudium Power Proxima 550W
• Seagate 7200.10 400GB
• Windows Vista SP1 Beta (Build 2175)
• Nvidia Forceware 169.01

Overclocking Setup

• ASUS P5E3 Deluxe Wifi-AP/N - Intel X38 Chipset
• Corsair Dominator PC3-1800C7D 2GB Kit (1333Mhz, 7-7-7-20)

Benchmark Settings

• Crysis Demo : 1280x1024, Low Quality, CPU Benchmark.bat
• UT3 Demo : 1280x1024, Low Quality, DM-Shangrila Flyby
• ET Quake Wars v1.1 : 1280x1024, Low Quality, Custom Timedemo
• Lost Planet Extreme Condition : 1280x768, Low Quality, Cave
• CineBench R10 : Multi-CPU Rendering
• POVRay 3.7 : Chess2.pov
• WinRAR 3.7 : Benchmark Test
• VirtualDub 1.7.6 w/ DivX 6.7
• DivX Converter 6.5
• MainConcept H.264 Encoder

It will be very interesting to check out all how all the 3GHz/FSB1333 processors fare in the benchmarks. Lets see how the 4MB, 8MB and 12MB L2 cache processors perform and see how the micro-architecture enhancements on the Yorkfield will aid it in the real world benchmarks.