We have an in-depth look at the performance of the Core 2 Duo E6400, E6600, E6700 and Core 2 Extreme X6800. Are the processors really as good as the previews said? We run a wadge of benchmarks on all the chips, including a lower-cache version to see how Conroe performs at the budget end of the scale.

"Intel has spent a long time shouting about it's Core 2 Duo processors, and now it is clear why the company has been doing so for such a long time. The architecture is incredibly fast, and based on our preliminary testing, there is plenty of room for the architecture to scale, too. We were able to get our Core 2 Extreme X6800 running quite happily at 3.46GHz."



Link: Bit Tech