QX6800???

[sidhe]

Ok what the heck is a QX6800?

I am reading articles regarding the QX6700 and I keep seeing references to the QX6800. Some of these appear to be typos where they've confused the QX6700 with the X6800 but that doesn't account for all of them.

One site mentioned that QX6800 is Intel's "likely" name for a higher clocked version of the QX6700. A few sites appear to be actually selling CPU's marked as QX6800. Another site had a months old article that claimed the QX6800 would be released in Nov 06.

What am I missing here?

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

Provide links to the articles.

 

[Doughbuy]

Hmmm... I don't know if they will make a QX6800, or at least anytime soon since the X6800 already uses so much power by itself they had to scale it down to accomadate a decent TDP...

Those sites are most likely confused.

 

[sidhe]

Provide links to the articles.

references release of QX6800
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/peripherals/0,39029462,49283963,00.htm

references name of "likely" QX6800
http://epsilon.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/core2quad_qx6700/

talks like it's real
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2846&p=2

says it's in their machine
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/17/2142235&threshold=-1

I can't find the link now where it appeared to be for sale but there are like a hundred other references... just google QX6800

 

[Doughbuy]

Uh, the anandtech article talks about the X6800 and the QX6700, not the QX6800....

The configuration differences between the two best systems in our lineup are interesting. Falcon NW opted for a two-drive RAID 0 array and large storage drive, while VoodooPC went for a three-drive RAID 0 config for ultimate speed. They're both liquid cooled, but VoodooPC went for a higher-clocked dual-core CPU. In fact, this is the highest clock speed we've seen anyone achieve with a Core 2 Extreme in a shipping system. We bent over backwards to make sure it was stable, and it never disappointed us with hang-ups or crashes.

That was from the link from the slashdot article, definitly a mistype...

Didn't check the other two, but there is no QX6800...

 

[Guest]

No matter what, it would be a Quad core at 2.93ghz.

I didn't read the article but some people do like to 'extrapolate' and give it the name Intel would.

But yeah no QX6800 though it would be rather easy to pump 266mhz more in this chip! Being unlocked multiplier, given a proper cooler, upping the multiplier by one is going to do the trick!

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

It's a typo. They forgot to take the Q out. The Voodoo Omen has only a dual core processor over-clocked to 3.8 ghz on liquid cooling. Check out this link where they call it a Core 2 DUO QX6800: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2059878,00.asp

Annand and neoseeker are benchmarking a theoretical QX6800 by overclocking a QX6700. Neoseeker even goes on to show theoretical QX6900, 6950, and MAXED OUT. They show the multiplier and clock speed settings they used to acheive these theoritcal chips.

The CNET article is just a typo. Note the article was realease quite a bit before the processor was. Shame on them.

 

[sidhe]

Ok thanks for the info. My first guess was that it was a typo but with so many typos I began to question my own conclusion.

Thanks again.