Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770

Written by Richard Swinburne

February 12, 2008 | 08:18

Tags: #1600mhz #2 #core #extreme #fsb #overclocking #penryn #performance #quad #review #yorkfield

Companies: #intel #test

Paint.NET x64 3.05

Website: Paint.NET

This is the 64-bit version of the popular free image editing software, Paint.NET. It's not as advanced as something like Adobe Photoshop CS3 or Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, but it does serve well for most image editing tasks.

We used the PDNBench script to test the processing times for a range of images and filters. The multi-threaded software also takes advantage of multi-core processors quite effectively.

For more information on what the benchmark script entails, please see this thread on the Paint.NET forums.




Paint.NET x64 3.05

PDNBench

  • Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (4x3.20GHz, 1600MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
  • Phenom 9900 (4x2.6GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Phenom 9700 (4x2.4GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Phenom 9600 Black Edn (4x2.3GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.67GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (2x3.20GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.00GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • 13.961
  • 14.472
  • 15.648
  • 17.614
  • 19.346
  • 26.206
  • 27.950
  • 28.993
  • 29.226
  • 33.056
  • 43.054
  • 46.277
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20
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40
50
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

Paint.NET is a little faster, not by much but it's still faster like we expected - the jump from 65nm to 45nm Core 2 from the QX6850 to QX9650 is an appreciable hike in performance.

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.

Large File Compression & Encryption

WinRAR 3.71, Multithreaded, 276MB source file

  • Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (4x3.20GHz, 1600MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.67GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
  • Phenom 9900 (4x2.6GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Phenom 9700 (4x2.4GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Phenom 9600 Black Edn (4x2.3GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (2x3.20GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.00GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • 85
  • 97
  • 103
  • 111
  • 115
  • 122
  • 125
  • 127
  • 128
  • 132
  • 150
  • 159
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25
50
75
100
125
150
175
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

Small File Compression & Encryption

WinRAR 3.71, Multithreaded, 400 2048x1536 Photos

  • Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (4x3.20GHz, 1600MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
  • Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.67GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
  • Phenom 9900 (4x2.6GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Phenom 9700 (4x2.4GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Phenom 9600 Black Edn (4x2.3GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
  • Athlon 64 X2 6400+ (2x3.20GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.00GHz, 1.0GHz HTT)
  • 92
  • 92
  • 98
  • 111
  • 111
  • 123
  • 127
  • 131
  • 140
  • 141
  • 155
  • 156
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25
50
75
100
125
150
175
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

While small file compression is more limited by hard drive write speed, large file compression performance is pretty stonking, shaving several seconds off the QX9650's time.
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