In Q3 of this year Intel very likely will add a new processor to it's line-up, the Core 2 Quad Q9650. The Q9650 will be priced at $530 close to half the price of the similarly spec'd high-end ...

In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Core i5-2400 3.1GHz is massively better than the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0GHz when it comes to running the latest games.

Intel put out some numbers to show that Core i7 and Core i5 are viable options and performs better than the older Core 2 Quad. In a series of five tests (some very old) we see the Lynnfield i5 @ 2 ...

Intel today is announcing their 1333FSB Core 2 line-up, which consists of three dual-cores, including the E6750 we previewed a few weeks ago, and also the 3.0GHz quad-core that we are testing out ...

This is when other processors, such as the Core 2 Quad Q9650 (3GHz), are expected to go public. Falcon Northwest already uses quad-core processors in its laptops. Falcon Northwest ...

While we only received a single QX6850 (which is a Quad Core 1333MHz FSB offering with a speed of 3GHz), we also have a Core 2 Quad QX6700 which we clocked up to QX6800 speeds (2.93GHz) on the ...

Yesterday Intel released five new Core 2 processors with 1333MHz front side bus speeds. We compare the new flagship QX6850 quad-core chip, along with the E6850 and E6750, to ten other processors ...

You can bet on it. So the answer to our initial question is fairly straight-forward and Intel is answering that definitively today with the launch of the new Core 2 Extreme QX6850 quad-core processor.