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 ...

As you saw on the previous page, the new S-series 65W Core 2 Quads aren't much different than the standard TDP models. It appears that they are simply specially binned parts which can operate at lower ...

Having slashed prices across its range of existing Core 2 Quad processors, Intel has introduced three new lower-power models aimed at the desktop. The 45nm LGA775 chips - Intel's Core 2 Quad Q9550s, ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

The memory performance of the quad-core Q6600 and QX6700 processors is almost the same as that of the E6700. Both quad-core processors are using DDR2-800 memory on a 1066MHz quad-pumped FSB, so the ...

After Steve Jobs announced Apple’s plan to drop the PowerPC processor and put Intel inside future Macs, some performance-hungry pros feared they’d see no major advances in Mac processing speed until ...

Although computers with quad-core processors are typically faster than single-core models, the difference in speed depends on a number of factors. On a very busy system and under ideal conditions, a ...

Currently quad-core processors offer no real benefits over dual-core processors in games. They do excel however in powerful video editing and graphics design applications. The QX6700 was 10% faster in ...