Some of the first hands-on reviews of Intel's new Dual Core chips:
 | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by LegitReviews.com |  | | | | | | | | | Intel Dual Core: Pentium EE 840 Arrives @ Legit Reviews
Today, for the very first time, Intel is letting the media show off the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840. Legit Reviews has the pleasure of being among the first to use the Intel 955X Express chipset, the I/O Controller Hub (ICH7/R), and the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor.
Full Story at Legit Reviews | |  | |  | |
| | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by HEXUS.net | | | | | | | | | | HEXUS.review - Intel Dual Core Extreme Edition CPU
The 3.2GHz Pentium XE 840 is offered as an alternative to current single-core Extreme Edition CPUs. It may not quite have the pure gaming performance punch as, say, the 3.73GHz XE, but it's a
better proposition when considered over a wide variety of applications. Think of it this way. The worst-case performance scenario is that the £650 Pentium XE 840 performs much like a single-core 3.2GHz 640 model. The best-case scenario, that is, being run with apps. that take advantage of its 4-thread parallel processing ability, is performance that no single-core Pentium 4 could ever hope to match, even under the most esoteric cooling.
Full Story at HEXUS.net | | | | | | |
EDIT: Dang Newsbot beat me to it by 6 minutes. %#@! smug little robot...
04-April-05, 03:07 PM
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