Here's our current test system.

Our test OS was Windows Vista Home SP1 with Nvidia's 174.74 of Forceware drivers. All the latest software revisions were used in our testing.

For our game testing we used lower graphic settings in order to stress the processor and relieve the graphics card from being the bottleneck.

Though Crytek was promising quad core support in Crysis our testing and others prove there doesn't appear to be any quad core support at all in Crysis. Here we see the Phenom 9850 come out on top but the 8750 and 9750 are very close in their speed and the dual core 5600+ running at 2.8GHz received the same score as the Phenom 8750.

Unreal Tournament 3 engine is the most popular game engine on the market today and not only that supports quad core processors. Here we see the 9750 running at the same stock come out on top of the 8750 while the 5600+ which was competitive with the triple core 8750 in Crysis can't compete with it in Unreal Tournament 3 with a 21fps difference. The difference between quad and triple core processors at the same speed though resulted in only a 3fps difference.

3DMark 2006 is a synthetic benchmark that weighs heavily on the strenght of the processor and is very multi-threaded. The 8750 sees a 500 point drop from the 9750 but gains 600 points on the 5600+.

Let's move onto to more benchmarks.