CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
02:52 - Thursday 10 May 2007 by Thomas Soderstrom
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: system, builder, marathon, uk
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: system, builder, marathon, uk
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
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Surprise, no Quad Core for this system: very few games can properly use even the two cores available on the X6800, and readily-available QX6700 processors typically under-perform the X6800 due to the latter's higher clock speed. Intel may have released a QX6800, but with availability so limited as to prevent even wealthy buyers from procuring one in a timely fashion. Rather than waste time, money, and silicon on cores that most applications can't use, we chose the fastest dual core processor.
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
It's quite obvious that our particular X6800 has been around the lab a few times, but the new part price will go into the build cost calculations. Remember that processors don't slow down as they age - they operate at full speed until the day they die.
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