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The common thinking when it comes to PC components is two (or more) of anything is better than one. Whether itd be two processors, two hard drives or two video cards, depending on the situation, multiple components should provide a speed boosts over ...
Abstract: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 $999 Intel (408) 765-8080 www.intel.com CPU Rating: 3.5 Specs: 3.2GHz, Smithfield core, 2X 1MB L2 cache, 230 million transistors, EM64T support Having played with so much dual core both from AMD and Intel over the past...
Insane Media Encoding Performance, Highend MultiThreaded Speed, Ultra Smooth MultiTasking
800 MHz Bus, Dual Prescott 1MB Cores, Very Expensive, Requires New 955XE Platform, Power Hungry
The Pentium Extreme Edition 840 is a very interesting entry into the high-end computing market, and gives us a glimpse at what a dual core processor can do for us today, as well as its potential for the future. The media encoding performance of the du...
Abstract: It still seems like dual core processors have arrived rather suddenly. Just a few short months ago, we were blissfully unaware, running our single benchmarks and counting gigahertz. As it turns out, HyperThreading was just a small glimpse of what was t...
Abstract: Once you’ve invested a few billion pounds in a fabrication plant and have a team of skilled engineers beavering away you’ll find it relatively easy to design and build an x86 processor. As time goes by you’ll have to develop the processor to reduce ...
Abstract: Today, were bringing you a Dual-Core Pentium quick take, on short notice from the folks at Intel. With only a few hours of testing at our disposal, were attempting to make time with some level of meaningful analysis for you and hit Intels NDA embargo lift...
Abstract: There’s a presentation slide that Intel recently sent us plotting time versus the performance of its processors and what tasks they’ve been designed to address. According to Intel, back in the days of its 486, technology was impacted by Micros...
Nathan Kirsch's Thoughts: I have only had a few days to spend tinkering with this test system, so it is really too early to come to a solid conclusion on anything thus far. Everyone knew Intel had dual core up and running, but the embargo lift on per...
Abstract: Our tests show Intels new dual-core desktop processors should deliver some real benefits when used with software designed to take advantage of the two cores, or when youre performing multiple tasks simultaneously--virus scanning while surfing the Web...
This is an interesting move, particularly by Intel, as usually the market that most benefits from multi-cored, multi-threaded systems is on server platforms. This is good for us consumers though, as g...
