Tech Shout!

Today, Intel announced a new and advanced addition to its enthusiast-level quad-core processor family- the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800. This processor runs at 2.93GHz making it the fastest native clock speed ever reached with the Intel Core micro architecture for the quad-core desktop.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800 processor is perfect for gamers, digital design professionals and enthusiasts who wish to have the highest performing computers.

In fact, at the Game Developer’s Conference that took place recently in San Francisco, many software developers demonstrated new games such as Crytek’s Crysis and Flagship’s Hellgate London that have been developed to take advantage of multiple processor core and threads. This increased performance definitely helps to deliver smoother gameplay, more realistic game effects and much more lifelike AI.

“The latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Service Pack One, due out later this month, is a great match for the extreme multi-core processing delivered by the new Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor,”said Phil Taylor, Flight Sim Program Manager, Microsoft game Studios.

“Flight Sim X SP1 greatly increases multicore utilization and will scale as more threads are available leading to reduced load times as well as frame rate improvements and greater visual complexity during flight. The Flight Simulator team at Microsoft is pleased to work with Intel to provide our end users with a great gaming experience,” he added.

Besides, delivering great games via this processor, the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800 is also being embraced by media users and developers such as Adobe, Cakewalk, DivX, Sony Creative Software amongst many others.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800 has been produced on Intel’s industry-leading 65 nanometer process, which plays a key role in enabling the larger than life 8MB cache. This processor supports a 1066 MHz system bus.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800 is available now at a cost of $1199.