Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q9300 has some rather large shoes to fill. This newly shipping, relatively low-cost quad-core processor from Intel is a replacement for their long-standing price to performance ...

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The Core 2 Quad Q6600 is yet another impressive Intel processor and the first to be launched in 2007. Nevertheless, quad-core technology is still ahead of its time, and it will take some time before ...

There was a huge degree of hype surrounding the first Core 2 processors, and amazingly they lived up to that hype. The new quad-core versions are not so exciting and have not been as anticipated. As ...

Months after bowling the world over with the Core 2 Duo, Intel follows up with double-or-nothing: the QX7600 Quad-Core CPU. The quick turnaround is accounted for by the manufacturing technique. They ...

While a 95W TDP rating doesn’t seem extremely power-friendly, this TDP rating is actually quite good in comparison to other quad-core solutions on the market. AMD’s new Phenom 9850 chips run in the ...