July 16 – In a move aimed for the mobile gamer market, Intel has decided to being offering the Core 2 Duo Extreme line of processors in a mobile version.

The X7800 is normally clocked at about 2.6 GHz, but this chip also allows for users to overclock your PC to obtain speeds that can exceed the blistering 3.0GHz.

Unfortunately these types of chips have been limited to desktops in the past due to excessive heat that they cause. Most desktops need cooling options that definitely aren’t factory installed to overclock these processors properly, so the thought of these being thrown into laptops almost seems silly.

It will be very interesting to see the variant methods that the manufacturers come up with to provide the cooling needed to support this incredibly fast white-hot processor. Read more here.

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