The Core 2 Quad Q6600 is yet another impressive Intel processor and the first to be launched in 2007. Nevertheless, quad-core technology is still ahead of its time, and it will take some time before ...

Who doesn't love a highly overclockable CPU? There isn't many of us! Every once in a while we'll hear of a golden CPU from someone, this has been going on since the good ole' Celeron 300A days when ...

The 9850 is a 2.5 GHz Quad Core built on 65 nanometer architecture, with 2 MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 125 watts. By comparison, the Q6600 has similar specs, running at 2.4 GHz with 8 MB of L2 and a ...

When we looked at Intel’s refreshed line of Core 2 processors last week, we came to the decision that Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6600 offered the best value for money out of all of Intel’s range of ...

Sometimes it is worth looking back at how far computing power has come, to put things in perspective. Helping many PC enthusiasts do just that is a recent Reddit post by dylan522, who pitted two PC ...

Intel are preparing to axe the 65nm Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, phasing it out in the first quarter of 2009. According to a Digitimes report, Intel will officially announce a discontinuance notice in ...

As they say, all good things must come to an end and in this case it's Intel's much beloved Q6600 processor which brought fun and frills to many enthusiasts and overclockers for nearly two years ...

Get them while there's hot ... Digitimes reports that Intel is planning to start phasing out the 65nm Core 2 Quad Q6600 in the first quarter of 2009, prompting several PC and channel vendors to start ...

The Q6600 is only a 266MHz FSB part, so don't expect miracles while increasing the FSB. With 400MHz it was possible to boot into Windows, but stable operation was out of the question. Due to the fact ...

There’s no doubt that 2006 was one of the most incredible years in technology in recent memory. There were scandals, impressive landscape-shifting mergers, strange new alliances and many new products ...

Hot on the heels of the Core 2 Duo launch, Intel came out and released the world's first quad-core desktop processor last November. Given how powerful the Core 2 Duo had proven to be, we wondered how ...

Our Core 2 Quad Q6600 is a fairly old engineering sample with a B3 stepping and although many of you will argue that an engineering samples tend to overclock further than retail samples, our ...