Intel Launches New Pentium Extreme Edition 965 139
RL-20 II Rider writes "Although Intel is hard at work readying their next-gen Conroe core for a proposed 2H '06 release, it seems engineers at the company are still improving upon the existing 65nm Presler core. This
review of the brand-new 3.73GHz Pentium Extreme Edition 965 dual-core processor shows that the CPU is based on a new stepping of the Presler core that runs cooler and overclocks higher than older chips, while consuming a bit less power as well."
Re:Pentium Name (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Intel should be ashamed. (Score:5, Informative)
Preliminary reports even say the Core chips are up to 35% faster than the AMD64 chips, and they don't even have EM64T to fall back on. But, for the purposes of this discussion, since this is a Pentium 4, it is still quite the power hog, but they've made advances with this chip that do warrant some attention (take a look at the benchmarks), and with their new $50 water cooler and overclocking, the Pentium 4 once again takes the performance crown.
I'm all for AMD, but Intel has cleaned up their act too, and refusing to notice that is a fatal mistake, no matter how much Slashdot/AMD coolaid you've consumed.
Also reviewed at The Tech Report (Score:3, Informative)
ExtremeTech, Tom's, Anand reviews (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1940865 ,00.asp [extremetech.com]
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/03/22/pentium_ext reme_edition_965/ [tomshardware.com]
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2725 [anandtech.com]
bottleneck order (Score:3, Informative)
Basically, it isn't going to help you much. If you put a lot of ram into it that'd probably help (try to get as much into ram as possible). If you have a huge amount of pics (60 gigs) a 10,000 rpm Raptor sata would probably be a good investment.
All that doesn't mean much if the network pipe is too small to dish out that many pics.
Re:Ironic (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Intel should be ashamed. (Score:2, Informative)
This one [anandtech.com] is the preliminary benchmark testing that a lot of folks questioned and this one [anandtech.com] is the follow up that answered a lot of the concerns about the first one. The conclusion was the same, though... at 2.66GHz Conroe beats an overclocked 2.8GHz FX-60 (overclocked to simulate the upcoming FX-62) quite handily (20%+ most of the time) while using 1/2 the power of the AMD part (and obviously at a lower clock speed). There were a few other sites that had similar previews but they all say the same thing.
Re:Pentium Name (Score:2, Informative)
Today, if we talk about x86 compatibility, we rarely talk about 386 compatibility. The *least* would be 486DX, since the 386 didn't have FPU. Personally, I consider the PPro to be the current base architecture. Hey, I had a PPro200 and it served our family well as a desktop until late 2002 [slashdot.org].