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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review: Quad Core is here!

By on November 2, 2006
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Given games have only just managed to adapt themselves to dual-core processors, it is needless to say quad-core does very little for a performance boost in games.

As a result, the QX6700 performed much the same as the X6800 and E6700. Again, while the QX6700 slaughtered the Pentium D 950, despite having four cores it only matched the performance of the dual core X6800 and E6700.

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