AMD has been pushing its low-power capabilities on mobile platforms for quite some time now. Its Turion processors have seen wide adoption during the laptop surge over the past year. Rated at 35 watts TDP, the Turion sipped the juice from the batteries at a glacial rate. For the desktop, however, AMD systems can afford a little leeway in terms of TDP thanks to better cooling options, even in stock conditions.
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What’s better than two CPU cores? Four cores! The QX6850 is Intel’s current leading desktop quad-core CPU and is the fastest model in the Core 2 Extreme (Kentsfield XE) range. The Kentsfield XE CPUs are the souped-up versions of the standard Kentsfield quad-core desktop CPUs and represent the leading edge in quad-core performance. Each Kentsfield-based CPU basically consists of two Core 2 Duo dies matched together with a bridge, but still fits in a single LGA775 socket. The Kentsfield XE features higher clock speeds than the standard Kentsfield and have unlocked frequency multipliers.
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