are in °C) at idle and climbs into the high 50s under load with occasional peaks in the low 60s, the QX9650 idles in the high 30s to low 40s and seldom breaks into the 50s at all. The highest temperatures we observed with the QX9650 were in the 53-55 °C range,...

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This forces three complete sets of benchmarks through the networks back-to-back, and presents average results for all runs in megabytes per second for throughput between a client machine (we used a PC running an Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme QX9650 with a P35 chipset...

processors, including the latest 45-nm quad cores. The sample system’s Core 2 Duo E8400 reduces costs substantially compared to the quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX9650 while providing the same rated clock speed and enhanced Penryn architecture. Few games are...

resolution. A quick Google lookup led me to read that a common cause of this error is an overclocked processor that can’t field interrupts quickly enough. I reclocked my nominal 3.0 GHz QX9650 down from 3.5 to 3.2 GHz and presto! Problem gone. Not all...