Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor

Extreme exhilaration. Extreme enjoyment.
Whether it's gaming, digital photography, or video editing, today's high-impact entertainment demands breakthrough technology. Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency.
Your options, multiplied
With four cores and high scores, the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650 is flat out the most extreme desktop processor. It's Intel's top of the line quad-core processor specifically built for hardcore enthusiasts who don’t take kindly to compromise. Hafnium-infused circuitry drives innovative processor design, enabling greater performance and efficiency. The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX9650 is the ultimate multimedia engine. And the performance? It eats benchmarks for breakfast.

Features and benefits
When "Extreme" is an understatement.
It's not about playing the game. It's about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme performance, the Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel Core 2 Extreme processors feature the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies:
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency


Intel® Deep Power Down Technology, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance


Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of all available data bandwidth


Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games


Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other. Now improved even further on 45nm versions with Intel® HD Boost utilizing new SSE4 instructions for even better multimedia performance
Warning: Graphics may appear to be too real.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor has the power for incredible visual experiences. Get inside amazingly complex HD games and applications with the incredible performance from Intel's most advanced gaming desktop processor ever.
Energy-efficient performance? Rage on.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor was designed to enable energy-efficiency so you can maximize your performance. Plus, the added energy efficiency allows systems to run quieter so you only hear what you want to hear - the sounds of sweet victory perhaps?


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