Intel intros quad core 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6800
By Evan Blass 
posted Apr 9th 2007 9:30AM
posted Apr 9th 2007 9:30AM
Intel's been on a tear when it comes to announcing new products lately, and while the upcoming McCaslin UMPC platform and new Core 2 Duo ULV CPUs will appeal mostly to road warriors, the 2.93GHz QX6800 Core 2 Extreme quad core beast is targeted squarely at power users. As with the step up from the dual core E6700 to E6800, though, you're paying more than double the price (
I've been an AMD fanboy for years, but Intel is showing it's prowess right now. If only I had the funds, I would build up a beast of a machine with one of these bad boys and begin crunching a 200GB rainbow table...
Alas, I must pay taxes.
when is this coming out?
you can check the links that engadget editor gave you.
The price is $1,199 (for the 1066MHz bus and 8MB cache), not $999.
I hope Commodore carries this when their store opens. I'd buy it.
Oh man that thing is beautiful. I want one. One of those can smoke 2 FX-74s in a 4x4 rig. Take that, AMDroids!
Didnt INTEL change their moniker to LEAP AHEAD or something as equally stupid? I liked the Intel Inside better, anyway.
300mhz, time 4 cores.. 1.2ghz in additional processing.....
You cannot just multiply numbers in CPU pprocessing power to get a quotient in MHz. Thats not how it works. Also, its 2.9GHz, not 300 MHz. Dopey!
Sure that name's not long enough? Maybe we can affix ULTRA or something to it.