Typical price: £527
What is it: The fastest desktop CPU on the market
What we think: It not only hands AMD a defeat on all of our benchmarks, but it's also a more efficient, better designed chip overall
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Review
Reviewed on: 14 August 2006
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