Velocity Micro ProMagix E2240 Review - CNET
CNET have published a review of the Velocity Micro ProMagix E2240 gaming desktop PC. 'The specs of the ProMagix E2240 show its gaming roots clearly enough. By overclocking the Core 2 Quad Q6600 from 2.4GHz to 2.7GHz, Velocity addresses the common complaint about quad-core chips (that they lose raw speed to faster dual-core CPUs), while preserving the benefit of the added processing threads. And because an ever-growing library of games is coming out that can take advantage of multiple CPU cores, any speed trade-off that's left in favor of dual-core chips is becoming less of an advantage.
Our performance charts bear this out. The only test on which the A50 outpaced the E2240 was on our iTunes test, which remains fairly sensitive to CPU speed. But on memory-intensive Photoshop and multicore-friendly Quake 4, you can see why the quad-core E2240 ends up being the better choice. And it's no surprise that the E2240 beat the A50 on the Cinebench test, which is designed to highlight the benefits of quad-core CPUs. But it's also interesting to see on that test and on the Photoshop test how Velocity Micro's overclocking gives the E2240 a leg up against other quad-core systems, including the HP and the Gateway, which both come with a stock version of the same chip, but with 3GB of RAM. '
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