Intel Shows Off New Extreme Processor for Laptops - Core 2 Extreme X7900

In a bid to offer the world’s fastest central processing unit for mobile computers, Intel Corp. demonstrated at Games Convention conference its new “extreme” chip that cranks up performance of laptops and allows notebook manufacturers to overclock it even further, providing gamers on the go even higher speed.

The new Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor features two processing engines, 4MB of unified level-two cache, uses 800MHz processor system bus and operates at 2.80GHz. As the previous enthusiast-class processor for mobile computers, the new model X7900 comes with bus ratio locks (over-speed protection) removed, which means that both system makers and end-users can overclock such processors to desired level and obtain additional performance virtually for free.