Intel® Core™2 Quad-Core Processing

It's time to go mod with quad. Here's why.

Get new power. Get new speed. Get the new quad-core processor from Intel®

Leaders of the pack seeking monster performance, look no further. With four execution cores, the Intel® Core™2 Quad processors blow through processing-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments and make the most of highly threaded applications. Whether you're creating multimedia, annihilating your gaming enemies or running multiple intensive applications at the same time, quad-core processing will change the way you do everything. Pioneer the new world of quad-core and transform the potential of multithreading into true task power.

Ready to revitalize your desktop experience, Gateway unleashes quad-core on a desktop model for you featuring the Intel® Core™2 Quad-Core Processor Q6600.

Benefits of Intel® Core™2 Quad Processing

• Enhance Your Performance
Quad-core processing can run certain applications more than 40% or even 50% faster than dual-core can. See the Performance Results chart below.

Performance Results

And the benefits of your results accumulate—more applications finish chores faster, meaning you finish faster.

• Be Through With Slow Throughput
When you're working in applications that use just single or dual cores, then tasks running in the background will execute on available cores. As a result, quad-core throughput can be up to 70% faster than dual-core.

• Make Highly Threaded Applications Highly Happy
Get in on the increasing number of highly threaded programs with quad-core technology from Intel® With four processing cores, an Intel® Core™2 Quad processor-based PC will fuel more intensive entertainment and more media multitasking than ever.

Plus, special Intel® technologies provide more great benefits:

• Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution
Enables delivery of more instructions per clock cycle improves both execution time and energy efficiency.

• Intel® Intelligent Power Capability
Designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance and smarter battery performance in your laptop.

• Intel® Smart Memory Access
Improves system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth.

• Intel® Advanced Smart Cache
Provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors.

• Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost
Accelerates a broad range of intensive applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific programs.

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Intel Quad Core


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Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit http://www.intel.com/performance.

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1 MainConcept* H.264 Encoder v2 converting a 24-sec. HD mpeg2 video clip into a compressed HD H.264 format video clip. Assumes a video clip = 1 minute. Number of clips prepared in one hour. Complete videos only.

2 Pinnacle* Studio 10.6 using a 24-sec.-long HD mpeg2 video clip and converting to HD Windows* Media Video 9 file.

3 XMPEG* 5.03 with DivX* 6.2.5 converting a 24-sec. HDV MPEG2 into a compressed HD DivX file. Assumes a video clip = 1 minute. Number of clips prepared in one hour. Complete videos only.

4 Calculation based on Quicktime* Pro 7.1 application compressing a 412 MB DV file to a 10.1 MB MOV format using Quicktime* Broadband-High profile with H.264 compression. No other applications were running during the test.

5 When compared to the Intel® Pentium® D Processor 960.

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