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Intel has chosen Easter Sunday to launch its latest product known by the full name as Core 2 Extreme QX6800, displacing its predecessor's dual-core X6800 and quad-core QX6700. Most enthusiasts will however, just name this model Kentie at 2.93 GHz. This CPU is not based on a new revision of Conroe or WoodCrest, but rather evidence that Intel worked on improving the packaging of the dies. Now, two X6800 dies have enough tolerance to run at their full clock speed, instead than one notch lower as it was the case with QX6700. We already wrote about how Intel created QX6700 here.
Second dot key-breaking game of this review is Stalker, and this game proved to be quite an interesting one. To much of our surprise, quad-core CPUs were slightly behind dual-core ones. Do not expect the same thing to happen with Crysis, Age of Conan, and Hellgate: London or Unreal Tournament 3. All of these games are multi-threaded and will squeeze every bit of juice left in your quad-core or dual-core CPU, so having extra-power ready is more than welcome.
The Good
- The fastest desktop CPU money can buy as of April 8th, 2007
- Drop-in socket upgrade with majority of S775 motherboards out there
- Nvidia's 680i chipset just got new best friend
- All-around product with good overclocking capabilities
- Brilliant in Modo 203
The Bad
- No 1333 MHz FSB because cherry-picked cores are still reserved for Clovertown
- 150W TDP may be a bit steep when performance/watt is compared to Clovertown at 3.0 GHz
- 1333FSB cannot be achieved even with overclocking or downclock to 2.66 (8x333)
- Time of the launch - brilliant move, guys!
The Ugly
- Intel is continuing to bundle useless stock cooler for $7.00 with a $1000 CPU - and that very same $7.00 cooler is not able to cool this baby down. 4-year old cooler will do a better job, it would not dent your margins to have something decent alongside this hot piece of silicon.
Fonte: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38772
pareçe que temos novo rei dos cpu`s
Second dot key-breaking game of this review is Stalker, and this game proved to be quite an interesting one. To much of our surprise, quad-core CPUs were slightly behind dual-core ones. Do not expect the same thing to happen with Crysis, Age of Conan, and Hellgate: London or Unreal Tournament 3. All of these games are multi-threaded and will squeeze every bit of juice left in your quad-core or dual-core CPU, so having extra-power ready is more than welcome.
The Good
- The fastest desktop CPU money can buy as of April 8th, 2007
- Drop-in socket upgrade with majority of S775 motherboards out there
- Nvidia's 680i chipset just got new best friend
- All-around product with good overclocking capabilities
- Brilliant in Modo 203
The Bad
- No 1333 MHz FSB because cherry-picked cores are still reserved for Clovertown
- 150W TDP may be a bit steep when performance/watt is compared to Clovertown at 3.0 GHz
- 1333FSB cannot be achieved even with overclocking or downclock to 2.66 (8x333)
- Time of the launch - brilliant move, guys!
The Ugly
- Intel is continuing to bundle useless stock cooler for $7.00 with a $1000 CPU - and that very same $7.00 cooler is not able to cool this baby down. 4-year old cooler will do a better job, it would not dent your margins to have something decent alongside this hot piece of silicon.
Fonte: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38772
pareçe que temos novo rei dos cpu`s
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