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Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor

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Extreme exhilaration. Extreme enjoyment.
Intel® Core™2 Extreme      Whether it's gaming, digital photography, or video editing, today's high-impact entertainment demands breakthrough technology. Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency.

Your options, multiplied

Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor
When more is better-with four processing cores the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers unrivaled¹ performance for the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games and multimedia apps.

Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency. The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9770 running at 3.0 GHz delivers the best possible experience for today's most demanding users.

  • 12 MB of total L2 cache
  • 1600 MHz front side bus

Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor
Experience the world’s highest performing mobile processor². Bar none. Now you have the performance to play the latest multi-threaded games anywhere, with the Dual-Core Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor X9000.

  • 6 MB of shared L2 cache
  • 800 MHz front side bus

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Features and benefits

When "Extreme" is an understatement.
It's not about playing the game. It's about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme performance, the Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel Core 2 Extreme processors feature the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies:

  1. Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency
  2. Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance
  3. Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth
  4. Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games
  5. Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other. Now improved even further on 45nm versions with Intel® HD Boost utilizing new SSE4 instructions for even better multimedia performance.

Warning: Graphics may appear to be too real.
The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor has the power for incredible visual experiences. Get inside amazingly complex HD games and applications with the incredible performance from Intel's most advanced gaming desktop processor ever.

Energy-efficient performance? Rage on.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor was designed to enable energy-efficiency so you can maximize your performance. Plus, the added energy efficiency allows systems to run quieter so you only hear what you want to hear - the sounds of sweet victory perhaps?

Buy an Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor-based PC today, and learn what it means to really get your game on ›

¹ Performance based on select industry benchmarks, game titles and multimedia creation www.intel.com/performance/desktop/extreme/ for additional information.
² Performance estimated for the Intel® Core™2 Extreme Mobile processor X9000 on SPECint*_rate_base2006. Actual performance on final product may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/for more information. SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, and SPECrate are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information about SPEC benchmarks see: www.spec.org
Δ Intel® processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See page for details.
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