Indestructable Posted September 22, 2005 CID Share Posted September 22, 2005 http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentiumXE/index.htm Cool. What's the catch?? Looks speedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted September 22, 2005 CID Share Posted September 22, 2005 no catch. it's the dual core pentium d with hyperthreading. name's a bit dramatic. only thing you could consider a catch is the 1000 dollar plus pricetag... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilatedpeoples28 Posted September 22, 2005 CID Share Posted September 22, 2005 Why do u say theres a catch, that cpu has been out for a while now and heard nothing but awesome things about it. incredible power with the dual cores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted September 22, 2005 CID Share Posted September 22, 2005 http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentiumXE/index.htm Cool. What's the catch?? Looks speedy. The catch is that it costs $1021 for a boxed processor.. The processor is alright.. I dont want to start the standard AMD vs. Intel fight.. but here is a review form x-bit labs.. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-840.html here is what they had to say about it.. I should say that Pentium Extreme Edition 840 from Intel made a twofold impression today. On the one hand, this CPU is a true new step in the evolution of Intel processors on NetBurst architecture. In most contemporary tasks supporting multi-threading, this processor does improve the system performance. Among these multi-threaded applications are the same ones we have already mentioned in our AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU Review last week. I would like to specifically mention that Pentium Extreme Edition 840 proves highly efficient compared with the single-core Pentium 4 when we have a few resource-hungry applications running simultaneously. However, the same CPU looks very unconvincing in quite a number of tasks. The main problem with Pentium Extreme Edition 840 is its low clock frequency, which makes its price absolutely incomparable with the actual performance you get in single-thread environment or under multi-threaded workload, which doesn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted September 24, 2005 Author CID Share Posted September 24, 2005 yeah, for some reason, I like AMD's better, maybe just because it's no monopoly Intel chip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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