Summarising our thoughts on the Phenom 9600 first, AMD has seen Intel's desktop processor line-up transform from the ageing, slow Pentium to the Core-derived Duo and, a year ago, the Core 2 Quad.

rtx 4090 24GB + Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 oc l 4K Games: gta 5 - 0:00 pubg - 1:04 Cyberpunk 2077 (SSE FIX) - 2:01 Red Dead Redemption 2 (SSE FIX) - 2:59 rust - 4:16 Forza Horizon 5 - 5:21 Kingdom Come ...

I'll think a bit about it (I don't have the cash in my hands yet). Somehow I just feel that a quad core 2 at 3ghz will serve me well for many years to come (the 2.4ghz amd64 suits me fine after 3-4 ...

Sony’s raising the bar in Japan starting February 10, shipping its latest VAIO R Master desktop complete with the latest Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor inside. This one nearly has it all with a ...

Alright, Im building a System right now and I cant quite figure out how to mount the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processors heatsink onto it. It is being placed ...

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Appreciating that our processor is a 125W TDP Phenom 9700 at heart, we were still interesting in taking a look at power-consumption figures for a platform as a whole. We took power measurements at the ...