By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
UPDATE: Editor’s note: Corrected price figures for the Core 2 Quad Q6600 and Core 2 Quad Q6700. The Q6600 was originally released in January at $851 and the price was reduced to $530 in April and $266 on July 22, the same day the new Q6700 was launched at a price of $530. We regret the mix-up in price figures and thank the readers who pointed out the discrepancy.
IT’S among the fastest processors yet and one of the most expensive. The Intel Core 2 Quad is the latest incarnation of the Core series of processors from Intel, which boasts of having the fastest multi-core processors in the market.
Intel Philippines recently introduced to the media the Intel Core 2 Quad processor, which, as the name implies, has four cores, each running like a separate processor. It is created using a 65 nanometer, dual-die manufacturing process.
It was launched in January and the new Core 2 Quad Q6700 was unleashed in July.
Codenamed “Kentsfield,” it is based on the Core architecture. Due to the presence of four cores the Core 2 Quad also uses up twice the power of the original Core 2 processor.
Nevertheless, the Core 2 Quad also provides nearly four times the power of the first Core processor. Intel Philippines country manager Ricky Banaag said their latest processor was created with the multimedia powerhouse in mind.
“It can be used for processor-intensive applications such as multimedia editing and gaming. It can run 3D graphics at 79 percent better than even the Core 2 Duo processor. It also runs 53 percent better in gaming as well,” Banaag said.
Banaag also said that multi-core processors would drive the development of better applications as there would be lesser limits in processing power.
“This means we’ll be seeing more applications that will run better, faster and smarter in multi-core processing,” he said.
The Intel Core 2 Quad comes in two models: the Core 2 Quad Q6600, with a speed of 2.40 Gigahertz per core; and Core 2 Quad Q6700 with a speed of 2.66 GHz per core. The Q6600 costs approximately $800 $266 (Editor’s note: The Q6600 was originally released in January at $851 and the price was reduced to $530 in April and $266 on July 22, the same day the new Q6700 was launched at a price of $530.) while the Q6700 costs $530.
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Christopher Lorenzo
The Q6600 costs approximately $800 while the Q6700 costs $530.
The above statement is false. The Q6700 cost $800 while the Q6600 costs $530.
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reginald chua
the price of q6600 is just about $200. your sources are so out-dated
Rico
The Intel Core 2 Quad comes in two models: the Core 2 Quad Q6600, with a speed of 2.40 Gigahertz per core; and Core 2 Quad Q6700 with a speed of 2.66 GHz per core. The Q6600 costs approximately $800 while the Q6700 costs $530.
Is this correct? So the Core 2 Quad Q6700, which is much faster than the Q6600, is cheaper?
s2dent
im confused? what is the real price then?.. the Latest not the out dated?
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