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Core 2 Quad

A quad core processor developed by Intel (which in fact it's composed of two Core 2 Duo processors). It features a cache memory up to 12MB and 1333MHz FSB. It's preceeded by the Core 2 Duo line and suceeded by the new Core i7 line, a quad core processor supporting Hyper Threading Technlolgy (8 threads) and a new socket and FSB speed as well.

The Q6600 is a mainstream Core 2 Quad processor running at 2.4GHz, 1066MHz FSB and 8MB L2 cache. It competes with AMD's Phenom processor.

Core 2 Solo

A special line of processors in the Core 2 series developed by Intel, which were manufactured for mobile devices only such as laptops.

My laptop has a Core 2 Solo processor.

Pentium 5

A non-existant line of Intel's microprocessors intended to succeed the Pentium 4 line of microprocessors. Pentium 4 processors codenamed Prescott (the first 1MB L2 cache ones) were supposed to be named Pentium 5, but they kept using the Pentium 4 name instead.

Prescott line of processors were intended to be named Pentium 5.

GeForce 8 Series

It's the 8th generation of GPUs developed by nVIDIA Corporation and the first ones to support DirectX 10 (Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.0). It's preceeded by the GeForce 7 Series supporting up to DirectX 9.0c (SM 3.0) and suceeded by the GeForce 9 Series, still supporting the DirectX 10 API, unlike its rival, ATI, which released their first DirectX 10.1 cards with the HD 3000 Series.

Notable GeForce 8 Series GPUs: GeForce 8400 GS. GeForce 8600 GTS. GeForce 8800 GTX.