Vlad Hrybok's Tech Notes

While comparing two Intel quad-core CPUs, Q6600 and Q8200, it was hard to arrive at the decision because for some inexplicable reason Intel does not state the TDP of Q6600. I reviewed several sources, and values are all over the map, from clearly incorrect 65W, to what looks like actual value of 105 Watt.

Since both CPUs cost $190 at this point, the decision which one to get comes down to whether you'd rather have a VT (virtualization technology), twice (8MB) the L2 cache and a little higher 2.4GHz clock of Q6600, vs. faster 1333 MHz FSB and 10W less of power consumption of Q8200.