SYSmark 2004 is a benchmarking program that supports multithreaded applications and multitasking components. It benchmarks the system by simulating various PC tasks and applications. In our testing, we began with an overall system rating, and then moved on to Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity

Intel processors lead the pack in all of the benchmarks we ran using SYSmark 2004. The QX6700, though, wasn’t the top performing CPU from Intel in every benchmark. The Core 2 Extreme X6800, a processor which has a higher clock of 2.93 GHz, was able to best the QX6700 in all but one benchmark. The results the QX6700 had in the above benchmarks was a result of SYSmark 2004 not being able to take full advantage of all four cores.