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Intel Demos Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core At IDF

MojoKid writes "Intel demonstrated a dual socket gaming rig at IDF this week, based on their Skulltrail platform with the X38 chipset. The interesting thing about this machine wasn't just that it had 45nm quad-core CPUs in its sockets, as well as PCI... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Sun, Sep 23 2007

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