Intel goes extreme with its dual-core mobile offerings

Monday 16th July 2007, 11:11:00 PM, written by Farid

A year after the introduction of its successful Core processors line, Intel announced today the availability of a new high-end mobile CPU, the Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile. Following the nomenclature established for Intel’s bleeding edge desktop processors, this new mobile dual-core based on the Merom architecture runs at 2.6 GHz, has 4MB of L2 cache and does not feature any bus ratio lock, which should cause rejoicing amongst the fans of overclocking out there.

Intel claims that this new mobile processor is up to 28 percent faster than a Core Duo T2600, the previous mobile mobile performance crown vessel from Intel, in 3DMark06's CPU test. The Core 2 Extreme X7800 is already available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for the price of $851 (€618). This price is of course per units for orders made in 1,000-Unit Quantities.

Looking further ahead, Intel expects to announce mobile quad-core solutions next year.

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Latest Thread Comments (2 total)
Posted by mito on Tuesday, 17-Jul-07 01:19:42 UTC
alhamdu lilah

Posted by Albuquerque on Tuesday, 17-Jul-07 03:18:19 UTC
I'm not sure how excited I am about this. I mean, I guess if you want to overclock your laptop with whatever paltry cooling it comes with, then more power to you. I'd be more interested in underclocking to save battery life, but since all the Pentium-M variants since the original Banias are downwardly-unlocked, what other gain is there?

Maybe if they gave us the ability to turn the voltage down below 0.950 I'd be more excited. I know that the C2D in my Dell will do the 6x thru 10x multipliers at the 0.950 (lowest) voltage setting without issue; I'd love to get some 0.750 loving in there like the Pentium-M generation, or even better, something lower like 0.500 if it would work.

The Pentium-M Banias 1.7Ghz in my older Thinkpad R50 would do 6x thru 8x multipliers on the 0.750v setting. I want less voltage :(


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