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Intel’s Dual-Core Processor Shows Real Improvements
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April 9, 2005 9:42 PM ET in Tech
The P4 EE 840 will be the first chip available with the dual-core architecture from Intel, with other dual-core desktop processors from its Pentium D line coming later this spring; it will use motherboards with the forthcoming 945 chip set.
View: First Tests of Intel’s Dual-Core Processor
Intel’s new dual-core 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 processor made a good showing on PC World’s WorldBench 5 tests in key multimedia and multitasking tests. But users looking for improvements in single-threaded applications, such as most office applications and games, will see little benefit from the new chip.
Like AMD’s Athlon 64 chips and the newly released 3.73-GHz P4 EE and the new 3-GHz to 3.6-GHz Pentium 4s with EM64T, the dual-core CPU has 64-bit support. The new chip’s cores each have 1MB of L2 cache, and the supporting chip set runs with either a 800-MHz frontside bus or a 1066-MHz FSB (the P4 EE 840 supports an 800-MHz FSB).
The real news here, at least for me, is that Intel’s dual-core CPU chip will have 64-bit support.
Source: PCWorld
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