Next-generation Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor QX9300 series is Intel's latest multi-core mobile processor, designed from the ground up for extreme competitive gaming and HD multimedia on the go. As the world's highest performing quad-core mobile processor,¹ the Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor provides all the performance of a desktop, enabled in a hardcore gaming and multimedia notebook.Product information
Product brief: Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor QX9300 series
Extreme notebook performance
Achieving clock speeds of up to 2.53GHz, along with an astounding 12 MB of shared L2 cache and a 1066 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), the Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor is your ultimate engine for hi-def multimedia while powering the latest generation of hardcore games.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor has four cores processing multiple threads and multiple tasks at blistering speeds for an incredible "like you're there" experience in advanced artificial intelligence (AI), particle systems, dynamic physics, and texture generation. As your ultimate engine for creating rich, HD videos with up to 50 percent faster performance when encoding² and editing³ video, these processors enable you to perform like a multiple armed monster.
And because you're looking for ultimate control in game, the Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor bus ratio locks (overspeed protection) have been removed, so you can fine tune your notebook experience for maximum gaming performance.±
Extreme press
"Somewhat surprisingly, the Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 ekes out a multithreaded victory over all test systems, with nearly a 5% lead over the next fastest 3GHz Core 2 Duo E6850-based system and a commanding lead over the AMD* tri-core Phenom. Mobile Workstation types, this new Intel notebook CPU could very well have your name all over it."
—HotHardware June 23, 2008
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Features and benefits
Notebooks built with the Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processor are designed with mobile-optimized technologies built in.Intel® 45nm processor Enabled by new hafnium-based circuitry, these four core processors provide dynamically increased energy efficiency and greater performance in gaming, multimedia, and multitasking on the go.
Power-Optimized 1066 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) Increased process system bus speed provides increased data bus bandwidth vs. prior generations for incredible gaming performance.
Larger Intel® Advanced Smart Cache 12MB of shared L2 cache minimizes bus traffic by allowing all four cores access to the L2 memory and shared data to be accessed from the cache.
Dual Intel® Dynamic Acceleration Uses headroom of idle cores by dynamically boosting frequency of active cores while maintaining the thermal envelope.
Support for Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU) and Intel® Extreme Memory Profiles (Intel® XMP)± Intel XTU and Intel XMP simplify processor and memory overclocking to optimize performance for extreme gaming.
