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 ...

Appreciating that our processor is a 125W TDP Phenom 9700 at heart, we were still interesting in taking a look at power-consumption figures for a platform as a whole. We took power measurements at the ...

For better or for worse, today’s official launch of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 puts us well into the quad-core era. Not even Hennessy and Patterson, much less the coders at the world’s largest software ...

Sony’s raising the bar in Japan starting February 10, shipping its latest VAIO R Master desktop complete with the latest Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor inside. This one nearly has it all with a ...

Somehow I just feel that a quad core 2 at 3ghz will serve me well for many years to come (the 2.4ghz amd64 suits me fine after 3-4 years still, it just needs some more memory, and one more core).

Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q9300 has some rather large shoes to fill. This newly shipping, relatively low-cost (~$270) quad-core processor from Intel is a replacement for their long-standing price to ...

Earlier this week, I asked, “Where are the quads?” I’ve been wondering when Intel’s Core 2 Quad, released in January, would show up in a brand-name consumer desktop PC. I expected to see the chip ...

If we were to judge the Core 2 Quad based on the two first SiSoft2007 benchmarks, we could conclude prematurely it's a hell of a buy but obviously there is more to it. Although the E6700 is clocked at ...

Summarising our thoughts on the Phenom 9600 first, AMD has seen Intel's desktop processor line-up transform from the ageing, slow Pentium to the Core-derived Duo and, a year ago, the Core 2 Quad.

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 ...