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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() YOU'VE GOTTA LIKE Intel's Core 2 Duo processors. After struggling mightily with performance and power consumption problems in the latter-day Pentiums, Intel came roaring back with the Core 2 Duo, producing a chip that goes like stink without spinning the electric meter into a frenzy. Since it offers a better combination of processing power, energy efficiency, and overclocking headroom than the Athlon 64, the Core 2 Duo has quickly become an enthusiast favorite, capturing prominent spots in our system guide recommendations and prompting a new round of upgrades for many folks. Now comes the CPU de grace, a processor that takes advantage of the Core 2 Duo's modest heat output by cramming two of those chips together into a single socket, a product Intel can plausibly claim is the world's first quad-core CPU. The Core 2 Extreme QX6700 isn't exactly cheap and doesn't run especially cool, but it will turn your spare bedroom into the computing equivalent of a government astrophysics lab and make the neighbors terribly jealous--provided your neighbors are total geeks. What hath Intel wrought with this quad-core beast? Do four CPU cores make sense in a desktop PC, and what sort of applications can really take advantage of such power? Let's have a look. review list: - http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q4...0/index.x?pg=1 - http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...e2quad_qx6700/ - http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/974/ - http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...?articleid=897 - http://www.techspot.com/review/27-in...e-qx6700-quad/ - http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=7129 - http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA== - http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2866 - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...me-qx6700.html - http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?skrivelse=491 - http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=3635 - http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200..._qx6700/1.html - http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/...re/1669_1.html - http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...me-qx6700.html - http://www.gamepyre.com/hardwared.html?aid=781&p=1 - http://www.pcinpact.com/link.php?url...6700-Intel.htm (FR) - ... |
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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() As expected, Quad Core is pretty much useless for desktop users, unless you are into 3D rendering, where the extra cores do pay off; in all other applications/games etc the QX6700 performance equals that of the Core 2 Duo 6700...
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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() hmm... overclocked to 3.2Ghz the QX6700 doesn't even match a stock clocked E6700 in games?
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| ![]() Hey, nothing wrong with pwning a bunch of folding@home charts with just one chip... ![]() I'm interested to see if Windows Vista has done any improvements with their task scheduling for multicores... |
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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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![]() | ![]() I don't "play" or "work" with Folding@Home... you?
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