Thursday, April 5th 2007
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 will come on Monday
Four cores running at 2.93GHz on a 1066FSB will be the base for Intel's upcoming Core 2 Extreme QX6800. Advanced cooling will be required in order to get rid of the 150W this beast will most likely dissipate. This CPU was thought to be released later this month but TheInq doesn't say so. Instead this new Intel flagship will be shown world wide on this Easter Monday - at least the NDA will go up by then. Furthermore don't expect them at your local dealers so soon, even big First Tier OEMs won't get it in substantial quantities the sources say. This all sounds like a paper launch without a real threat for Intel to continue their push-strategy. Or is the upcoming K10 architecture so much better performance wise?
Source:
TheInquirer
13 Comments on Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 will come on Monday
Runs stable at 3.00GHz with Prime95 running on all 4 cores, games work fine.
With Mine cooler and P95 running it hovers around 70C on the cores using coretemp.
oh man. thats funny.
i wonder what kind of power the thing will use up under full load, in a hot environment? close to 200w?
At 3.3Ghz I ran into issues with the RAM needing more power, not the CPU.
These chips OC very well, and air wil handle it if you are not going for the gold.
Just my 2 cents.
I am really impressed by the Scythe Mine cooler also. It received decent reviews (not spectacular), but it seems to dissapate heat very well. At 2.93Ghz it keeps my all 4 cores in the upper 40s to low 50s.
Of course having four case fans, plus the big 25cm one on the side of my Armor case doesn't hurt either.
I am glad that ATI vents their cards out the back of the case too. That helps with overall case temps.
With th eCPU overclocked, but no voltage changes or GPU OCing I managed a 3DMark05 score of about 16900. No record or anything, but not bad for just a little tweaking. At stock it Marks at about 16300.
Happy Easter !