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Intel Core 2 Quad

This page will show all objects that classify as Intel Core 2 Quad. The Core 2 Quad has been made by Intel, a company that has been around since 1968 and is today's biggest processor company. They started with the i4004, a microprocessor for calculators and such, but got popular with the 8086 and 8088. IBM used that processor in it's IBM-PC and clones of the IBM PC obviously used the same processor as well. Thanks to this evolution Intel could find it's way on the market and develop successors of the 8086 all up to todays Core i7.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 'SLACR'

Once the Q6600 will be a classic. The Q6600 has been around since January 2007 and back then everyone was happy with either an Athlon 64 X2 or Core 2 Duo. The latter was quite new as the first Core 2 Duo's appeared half way 2006.

Technically the Q6600 consists of two Core 2 Duo E6600 cores. It's just like the Pentium D 9xx 'Presler' which also has two individual cores on one packaging.

The Q6600 was quite a performer if you could use the extra cores. In normal situations an E6600 would be practically equal and a faster dual-core CPU would outperform a lower clocked quad-core in many situations. Despite that many power hungry bought the Q6600 as it was getting cheaper every month. Overclockers were happy because the Q6600 clocked fairly good and by just raising the front-side-bus to 333 (QDR1333) or 400 (QDR1600) the CPU would fly!

My Core 2 Quad Q6600 still fits in my main workstation. I have a G0 version which is newer. The first Q6600's with sSpec number SL9UM and revision B3 didn't clock as good as the G0 and ran slightly hotter (105W TDP versus 95W TDP). My CPU is clocked at 3,2GHz using a 400 (QDR1600) FSB and slightly increased core-voltage. I don't think I need a faster CPU in my workstation for quite some time so the Q6600 will definatly stay for a while! > Read more