Testing – Futuremark
Futuremark’s PCMark and 3DMark series are an important part of benchmarking, as they test so many aspects of a system. I ran PCMark05, PC Mark Vantage, 3DMark06, and 3DMark Vantage on the two systems, and on the i7 overclocked.
Again, we see similar numbers. The E8400 did well on the PCMark05 Graphics, but keep in mind that the test is pretty old and doesn’t really put modern video cards to the test.