Intel's 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled

[skittle]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/intel_penryn_4ghz_with_air_cooling/

Drool... 40 pages of goodness

 

[jaguarskx]

Wow.

Intel 45% Faster Than AMD

The performance results are nothing short of appalling for AMD. Intel's new Penryn-based QX9650 pulls ahead of AMD's fastest desktop model, the Athlon 64 X2 6400+, by 45%.

Intel's 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled - Page 19

But it would be nice to see how a dual core Penryn would hold up to AMD's fastest Athlons.

 

[pausert20]

Some other site reviews:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3137

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2extreme-qx9650.html

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2208241,00.asp