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Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor

Intensify to the power of quad

It’s called “extreme” for a reason. Nothing delivers smooth frame rates, and blistering speeds for games, movies, and multi-media like the 45nm hafnium-infused Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor. It’s Intel’s fastest quad-core desktop processor ever.¹

Untouchable desktop performance¹ for extreme gaming

With four independent processing cores, 12 MB of cache, 1333 MHz Front Side Bus and clock speeds of 3.00 GHz, the new Intel® Core™2 Extreme desktop processor shatters all gaming barriers with the performance to power the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games.¹


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There’s fast. And then there’s Intel.

The advanced circuitry design, and 12 MB of cache provide up to 13% faster performance for applications like photo editing, retouching and publishing.² And Intel HD Boost delivers up to 40% higher performance for intensive multimedia applications like video encoding.³ Run all the newest games, HD movies, and multi-media programs faster and smoother - and all at the same time.


See performance benchmarks on content creation

Intel® Core™2 Extreme Dual-Core is now in notebooks

Notebooks powered by the Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor give you gaming power at your fingertips, on the move. Dominate LAN parties with the world’s highest performing mobile processor. 4


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View Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor specifications

¹ Performance based on select industry benchmarks, game titles and multimedia creation applications. Actual performance may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/desktop/extreme/ image_editing.htm for additional information.


² Performance based on Adobe Lightroom* test results, comparing Intel® Core™2 Extreme Qx9650 to the Intel® Core™ Extreme processor Qx6850. Actual performance may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/desktop/extreme/index.htm for additional information.


³ Performance measured based on TMPGEncoder* Xpress* 4.4 optimized for Intel® HD Boost, comparing Intel® Core™2 Extreme Qx9650 to the Intel® Core™ Extreme processor Qx6850. Actual performance may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/desktop/ extreme/index.htm for additional information.


4 Performance measured on Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor X7900 running SPECint*_base2006. Actual performance may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/mobile/extreme for additional information. SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, and SPECrate are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information about SPEC benchmarks see: www.spec.org.

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