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Intel® Core2 Extreme Processor
Extreme Desktop: Gaming
 
Gaming:

The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 enables great performance on today's games, and provides extra compute engines to get you ready to rock on tomorrow's multithreaded games.

Great Gaming Today – Amazing Gaming Tomorrow

Half-Life*2: Lost Coast is an additional level for Valve Software's first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. We run a time demo to evaluate the CPU's contribution to the average frame rate (frames per second). Time demo tests do not provide a full measure of real game play.

From the graph you can see that the Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX9650 processor shows a 9 percent performance increase over the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor.

Half-Life*2-Lost Coast

Quake*4 is a first-person shooter computer game from Raven*Software/Activision*. We run a time demo to evaluate the CPU's contribution to the average frame rate (frames per second). Time demo tests do not provide a full measure of real game play.

From the graph you can see that the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor shows a 9 percent performance increase over the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor.

Quake* 4

Company of Heroes* is a real-time strategy game set in World War II from Relic*. We run the performance test to evaluate the CPU's contribution to the average frame rate (frames per second).

From the graph you can see that the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor shows a 7 percent performance increase over the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor.

Company of Heroes*

Gaming Performance
Processor and Game Half-Life*2: Lost Coast Performance Delta
Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850 166.39 Baseline
Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 180.69 + 9%
Processor and Game Quake*4
Performance Delta
Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850 237.43 Baseline
Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 258.28 + 9%
Processor and Game Company of Heroes* Performance Delta
Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850 224.60 Baseline
Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 240.60 + 7%

Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit www.intel.com/performance/ or call (U.S.) 1-800-628-8686 or 1-916-356-3104.

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