The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 - Efficiency fuels it fire! @ Magicmc.com Reviews

The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 - Efficiency fuels it fire!

The Intel Extreme QX9650 is for the computer gamer CPU who has trick up his sleeve. This Intel Core 2 CPU has huge performance gains over its previous edition, the QX6850, but doesn't achieve them with more extreme overclocking, or the addition of a larger hotter running chip design. It does it by completely redesigning, with efficiency in mind from the start, by moving to a 45 nanometer (nm) design. The only thing that was "enlarged", was the L2 Cache, at 2X6MB, up from 2X4MB, which I have to admit, did probably add improvement to near perfection. This major change allowed for a more efficient Intel computer processor, or any other company for that matter, that uses the older 65-nanometer specs as the new high.

The immediate benefits of the smaller transistor setting was noticeable. The overclocked Extreme Edition Intel Core 2 CPU was the perfect test mate for the change. If ever there a bully in need of a little cooling off, it would be an Intel Core 2 Extreme Edition CPU, and if it only ran faster for it, its improvement would be quickly felt.

The resulting power efficiency did blatantly show a performance increase in benchmark testing over an Intel PC equally equipped with the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 to compete against. It blew the older model away in both multimedia multitasking and audio/video editing. Though it may yet to be seen if the 45nm design created a copycat to standards love story, at least temporarily, being able to not only own the beast, but to tame it, makes your Intel Core 2 CPU powered worth its $999 retail price tag, because it beats the last 1K model, and with efficiency and style.

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