Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor

Extreme dominance built-in. You've battled your enemies in this world and beyond, but never like this. With an Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor, you'll have the best desktop PC experiences for years to come. Bar none.

Now available in quad-core
Experience performance second to none on highly-threaded apps² and get in the game like it was meant to be played with the Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700—the world's first quad-core desktop processor.

Your options, multiplied
Intel® Core™2 Extreme dual-core processor

They don't call it the world's best gaming processor¹ for nothing. With Dual-Core Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, you get energy-efficient gaming performance for a frighteningly vivid high-def multimedia experience. Plus, with up to 4 MB of L2 cache and up to 1066 MHz front side bus, you'll be raging across the universe in true need for speed fashion.

Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor

When more is better—with four processing cores the Quad-Core Intel Core 2 Extreme processor is a multitasking monster delivering twice the performance on highly-threaded apps² taking your desktop PC experience into a completely new realm of mega power. Built to deliver serious performance on the games of today, the Quad-Core Intel Core 2 Extreme processor can take on anything you throw at it, including the highly-threaded games of tomorrow.

Features and Benefits
When "Extreme" is an understatement.It's not about playing the game. It's about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme power, the Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel® Core™2 Extreme desktop processors feature the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, and only from Intel:
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency
Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance
Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of all available data bandwidth
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other
Warning: Graphics may appear to be too real.The new Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor has the power for incredible visual experiences. Get inside amazingly complex HD games and applications with the incredible performance from Intel's most advanced gaming desktop processor ever.
Energy-efficient performance? Rage on.The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor was designed to enable energy-efficiency so you can run red hot. Plus, the added energy efficiency allows systems to run quieter so you only hear what you want to hear - the sounds of sweet victory perhaps?

Buy an Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor-based desktop PC today and learn what it means to really get your game on ›