Compare Intel Pentium® III, 1.4 GHz (BX80530C1400512) Retail Processor to Intel Core2 Extreme X6800, 2.93 GHz (BX80557X6800) Boxed Processor

The Intel Pentium III processor offers great performance for today and tomorrow's applications, as well as quality, reliability, and compatibility from the world's leading microprocessor company. The Pentium III processor enables higher polygon counts and advanced lighting effects, which can provide software and Web sites with more lifelike surfaces, more objects rendered in a given scene, and amazing shadow effects and reflections rendered in real time.??The performance of the Pentium III processor enables software developers to incorporate a greater degree of realism and interactivity. Imagine flight simulators with wings that actually flex, driving simulations with suspension that actually works, or gaming characters with fingers that can touch and grasp. The Pentium III processor can provide better responsiveness with your graphics software by offering increased frame rates, color depths, and image processing algorithms. This means you can work with large, complex images and di... Less

Intel? Core?2 Extreme processor is the new brand name for our next-generation energy-efficient performance desktop and mobile processors. Formerly known by their codenames Conroe and Merom, the Intel? Core?2 processors for desktop and mobile computers are based on the Intel? Core? microarchitecture, Intel's new industry-leading foundation for all mobile, desktop and server platforms moving forward. Less