Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 Officially Announced

Intel officially announced today the Core 2 Extreme X7900 laptop processor at the 2007 Games Convention in Germany.

Designed for use in “Santa Rosa” platform-based gaming/high-performance notebooks, Intel’s Core 2 Extreme X7900 has two processing cores clocked at 2.8GHz. As same as the earlier introduced Core 2 Extreme X7800 at 2.6GHz, the X7900 mobile CPU features 800MHz front-side bus and 4MB of L2 cache. It is also overclockable.

“The X7900 has a power consumption of 44 watts, for which reason cooling may be insufficient in some laptops for mobile Core 2 Duo processors (TDP 35 watts, up to 2.4 GHz). Intel is foregoing a multiplier lock in the Core 2 Extreme CPUs, which should make them easier to overclock - for which, however, adequate cooling will be required,” Heise Online reports.

The OEM manufacturers can obtain the X7900 immediately for $851, according to the report. Since the X7800 was announced last month with the same price, we assume the price of this processor will be reduced soon.

The first notebooks featuring Core 2 Duo X7900 are expected to arrive within the next four weeks from computer makers such as Dell and Asus.

[…] In addition, we expect the M1730 to include the recently announced Core 2 Extreme X7900 CPU, while, according to reports, Dell might also provide the GeForce 8800M graphics option. Some reports say Dell’s upcoming gaming notebook will include the AGEIA PhysX 100M module, “dedicated solely to delivering rich immersive physical gaming environments”. […]

[…] Along with the recently introduced Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900, the chip maker has added the Core 2 Duo T7800 model at 2.6GHz to its mobile processor price list. The T7800 costs $530, while the prices for the older T7700 and the T7500 are decreased from $530 and $316 to $316 and $241 respectively. […]