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question/problems  Last response: in CPUs  I know very little
about computers and I don't really have anybody to teach me so
I'm kind of on my own.  I just got the core 2 quad 2.66ghz with
a 1333 bus and 12mb cache. I'm running on a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
mobo and a 9800 GTX. 4gb of ram on xp64.  I wanted to test the
processor and the thermal paste I installed. I ran 3dmark06 and
my overall score was 13605 with the processor score of 4500. It
said there were no computers to compare this to, so I don't know
if these numbers are any good. When I just searched the
processor on 3dmarks website, it showed my processor with a
score of 11000 BUT when I tried to find comparable computers,
their overall score was right around mine. When it shows the
processor stats it says my bus is 333, not 1333. It also says my
cache in L1 is 64k and in L2 is 6mb. I'm not sure if this is
software or what. No idea. During the tests though, when it runs
the graphics just on the proce