X-bitlabs reviews Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 and Core 2 Duo E6850 processors
While AMD keeps postponing the launch of their quad-core processors to the end of this year - beginning of next, Intel Company is offering very affordable quad-core CPUs from Core 2 Quad family. However, can Core 2 Quad processors be regarded as a worthy alternative to popular dual-core solutions?
The Intel processor price cut that occurred a month ago turned into an important milestone on the multi-core processors' way to user computer systems. The price of quad-core processors has finally dropped down to the level of dual-core solutions. To be more exact, the youngest model in the official Core 2 Quad lineup is priced exactly the same as the top Core 2 Duo CPU. This price, by the way, is set at $266, which seems quite sufficient to make processors with four computational cores much more popular than they used to be before...
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