Preview: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 65nm

[TecHNooB]

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2658&p=1
Does well in media encoding. Expensive though.. Opteron 180 FTW!

 

[MBrown]

I am pleasantly suprised.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: Anand Lal Shimpi
While we're not emphatically recommending Intel's latest and greatest, we are impressed with Intel's transition to 65nm thus far. If Intel can use Cedar Mill and Presler to ramp up their 65nm process, hopefully it will be primed and ready for Conroe's introduction later this year.

Tomorrow?

 

[LifeStealer]

Originally posted by: lopri

Originally posted by: Anand Lal Shimpi
While we're not emphatically recommending Intel's latest and greatest, we are impressed with Intel's transition to 65nm thus far. If Intel can use Cedar Mill and Presler to ramp up their 65nm process, hopefully it will be primed and ready for Conroe's introduction later this year.

Tomorrow?

lol

 

[fbrdphreak]

Very interesting results indeed. Nice performance during multitasking gaming. Intel is learning how not to drop the ball

Now if AMD can only not drop the ball in 06....

 

[Zebo]

LOL.. cheap, lowest end - AMD X2 3800 winning majority of real world and world bench even at 3.46 like Mark said it would.

When we went to go measure power consumption on our Pentium EE 955 platform we were met with some extremely troubling results. Not only did we not see the power consumption figures we originally saw with Presler and Cedar Mill a couple of months back, but power consumption was actually higher at 65nm than it was at 90nm.

Ouch.. better hope intels "new mobo" addresses this problem too.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Zebo
LOL.. cheap, lowest end - AMD X2 3800 winning majority of real world and world bench even at 3.46 like Mark said it would.

When we went to go measure power consumption on our Pentium EE 955 platform we were met with some extremely troubling results. Not only did we not see the power consumption figures we originally saw with Presler and Cedar Mill a couple of months back, but power consumption was actually higher at 65nm than it was at 90nm.

Ouch.. better hope intels "new mobo" addresses this problem too.

Exactly....

 

[n7]

Yet another desparate attempt to prolong Netburst...

 

[josh609]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Zebo
LOL.. cheap, lowest end - AMD X2 3800 winning majority of real world and world bench even at 3.46 like Mark said it would.

When we went to go measure power consumption on our Pentium EE 955 platform we were met with some extremely troubling results. Not only did we not see the power consumption figures we originally saw with Presler and Cedar Mill a couple of months back, but power consumption was actually higher at 65nm than it was at 90nm.

Ouch.. better hope intels "new mobo" addresses this problem too.

Exactly....

Intel is doing better, but Its kinda sad how a $322 ((3800+ X2)CPU is comparable to a $1000+ (P4D EE 3.4GHz)

 

[AnandThenMan]

Originally posted by: Zebo
LOL.. cheap, lowest end - AMD X2 3800 winning majority of real world and world bench even at 3.46 like Mark said it would.

When we went to go measure power consumption on our Pentium EE 955 platform we were met with some extremely troubling results. Not only did we not see the power consumption figures we originally saw with Presler and Cedar Mill a couple of months back, but power consumption was actually higher at 65nm than it was at 90nm.

Ouch.. better hope intels "new mobo" addresses this problem too.

LOL, yea a motherboard is responsible for the excessive power draw? Wow, that's a new one I'll give Intel credit for originality. Let's be clear, the worst a motherboard can do is prevent any power saving technologies from working properly. Which means the CPU will always be under full load. Other than that, a bad motherboard cannot account for the extreme power draw without blowing itself up in the process.