The new Intel Core 2 Quadro

This is the new Intel Core 2 Quadro four core processor, the third generation of Core Duo series. Actually, this new Core 2 Quadro is having 2 Core 2 Duo processor fit into this CPU package, giving this processor four cores. Each Core 2 Duo processor will have 2 cores and these 2 cores are sharing a 4MB L2 cache, so a Core Quadro will have 4 Core 2 Duo cores(CPU), a total of 8 MB L2 Cache.here is a diagram that shows this:


Here is some screenshots that show details of this new Core 2 Quadro:

CPU Z screenshot

Everest Ultimate screenshot

As you can see, this processor is running at 2.66Ghz, with 1333Mhz FSB, the FSB speed had increased slightly compared to Core 2 Duo series. To run this processor, you need a recent motherboard that have 965 or 975X chipset, or a model based on Nvidia's nForce 500 chipset series for Intel processors. The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 is ready to handle the Core 2 Quadro. They had also succesfully overclocked this processor to 3Ghz. When doing benchmarking, the performance of this processor had also increased and better than Core 2 Duo. The 3D performance of games had also increased by 3 times! Sounds great huh? Intel may release these 4 cores processor at the end of this year, for more accurate information, please go to their website. In this post I just write some basic information, for more detailed information, please refer to Tom's Hardware:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/10/four_cores_on_the_rampage/
All pictures and screenshots are credited to Tom's Hardware.


Front view of Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quadro.


Back view of Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quadro.


Physical layout of the two CPU cores with two processors each.


Intel Core 2 Quadro CPU without the cover.

Simple definitions of computer terms:
L2 Cache:
L2 Cache means level 2 cache, a high speed memory located on the cpu. L2 Cache allows for high-speed access to the system's most commonly accessed data. L2 Cache is used to speed up processing of certain tasks and can provide faster CPU access to instructions and data in memory, thus increasing system performance.

FSB:
FSB stands for Front Side Bus, which determines how fast the CPU communicates with all other components, and thus makes a massive difference to the overall performance of the computer. The FSB is also used to work out the overall number of the Mhz the CPU is rated at.Overclockers often manipulate this value to increase the speed at which their processor runs. ie 100Mhz FSB X 17.0 clock multiplier = 1700Mhz processor. AMD Athlon FX Edition series processors are the processors having the fastest FSB, with the speed of 2Ghz, good for gaming and digital media processing.

Another thing, each core in the processor is running at 2.66Ghz, not 665Mhz(2660/4).