Testseek.com have collected 31 expert reviews of the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz Socket 775 and the average rating is 77%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz Socket 775.
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The editors liked
Fastest Dual Core Available from Intel
Rock Stable
Availability
Fastest desktop CPU on the market
Unlocked clock multiplier makes overclocking possible out of the box.
Fastest Desktop Processor
Low Power
The editors didn't like
Expensive when faster QuadCores are the same price.
Chipset politics between Intel and graphics card vendors hurts gamers who now have to pick an Intel board for ATIs Crossfire or an Nvidia board for SLI cards.
Expensive, No HT or Other "Extreme" Extras, LGA775 Heatsinkfan Design
The launch of the Core 2 processor line has hit the market with a bang, and offers up an incredible combination of performance and value, coupled with low heat and power specifications. These processors are so good, that its difficult to highlight an...
Fastest desktop CPU on the market; unlocked clock multiplier makes overclocking possible out of the box.
Chipset politics between Intel and graphics card vendors hurts gamers who now have to pick an Intel board for ATIs Crossfire or an Nvidia board for SLI cards.
AMDs Athlon 64 FX line has worn the desktop CPU performance crown for over a year. The king is dead. Intels new flagship Core 2 Extreme X6800 not only hands AMD a defeat on all of our benchmarks, but its also a more efficient, better designed chip o...
Abstract: The sleeping giant of Intel has now arisen. After years, the chip giant is set to reclaim the desktop performance crown from crosstown rival Advanced Micro Devices with the launch of Conroe, its much-anticipated next-generation processor. In a head-to-...
Where do you start with products such as the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 and Core 2 Extreme X6800? First off may I just say that when I began testing these dual-core 4MB L2 Cache processors expectations where high, very high. For probably the first time I c...
From our testing experience during this review, we have found the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor family to perform better than the previous generation core and conserve energy while doing so. It is because of this and the fact that Intel has taken the pe...
Extremely expensive The Final Word Core 2 Extreme CPUs are aimed at the high-end of the personal computing market. They are a suitable fit for expensive gaming PCs and are great for video editing rigs and for those of you who use design applications an...
Core 2 Extreme CPUs are aimed at the high-end of the personal computing market. They are a suitable fit for expensive gaming PCs and are great for video editing rigs and for those of you who use design applications and want to build an entry-level work...
Intel has finally stepped away from Netburst and its about time too. In the beginning it was clear that Pentium 4’s architecture wasn’t going to be the ultimate in CPU technology - if a 1.3GHz clocked Pentium 3 could beat it in 90% of benchmar...
In conclusion, the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Core Duo E6700 are definitely leaders in the field of CPUs with high performance, low power consumption and backward compatibility with the 775 motherboards. Unfortunately for now, the price of both CP...
Six months ago, Intel blew our socks off with its new Core 2 Duo processors. So what is the standard bearer of the range doing languishing near the bottom of the table? The answer is simple and it has to do with that old chestnut, value. At standard cl...
The price is just too high, Limited overclocking potential
Brand new chip. Same old problem.After spending some face time with Intels Core 2 Duo processor, we couldnt have come away more impressed. Core 2 Duo slapped the opposition around in every way that matters, including performance, operating temperatur...
