Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 3.0GHz, Quad-Core, Socket 775

Experience the World’s Best Gaming Processor
The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor delivers revolutionary quad-core performance for those select individuals looking for the most intense, high-performance computing experience available. It is designed for gamers and power users seeking exceptional performance for ultra realistic games and advanced multi-threaded digital media creation applications requiring the PC to perform multiple, complex tasks simultaneously. The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers on these expectations that enable the elite to play at the top of their game.

Features

• Quad-Core Processing
  Provides four independent cores in a single package with 8 MB of L2 cache and a 1333 MHz Front Side Bus. Four dedicated, physical threads help operating systems and applications deliver additional performance, so end users can experience better multi-tasking and multi-threaded performance across many types of applications and work loads.
• Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution
  Improves execution speed and efficiency, delivering more instructions per clock cycle. Each core can complete up to four full instructions simultaneously.
• Intel Designed Thermal Solution for Boxed Processors
  Includes a 4-pin connector for fan speed control to help minimize the acoustic noise levels generated from running the fan at higher speeds for thermal performance5. Fan speed control technology is based on actual CPU temperature and power usage.
• Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost
  Accelerates the execution of Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE) instructions to significantly improve the performance on a broad range of applications, including video, audio, image and photo processing, multimedia, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are now issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle effectively doubling their speed of execution on a per clock basis over previous generation processors.
• Intel® Smart Memory Access
  Optimizes the use of the data bandwidth from the memory subsystem to accelerate out-of-order execution. A newly designed prediction mechanism reduces the time in-flight instructions have to wait for data. New pre-fetch algorithms move data from system memory into fast L2 cache in advance of execution. These functions keep the pipeline full, improving instruction throughput and performance.
• Intel® Advanced Smart Cache
  Dynamically allocates the shared L2 cache is to each processor core based on workload. This efficient, dual-core optimized implementation increases the probability that each core can access data from fast L2 cache, significantly reducing latency to frequently used data and improving performance.
• Intel® Virtualization Technology
  Allows one hardware platform to function as multiple "virtual" platforms. Intel VT improves manageability, limiting downtime and maintaining worker productivity by isolating computing activities into separate partitions.