Intel's 65 nm Process Breathes Fire into Double-Core Extreme Edition

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No Changes To The Reference Cooler Design

Since the thermal specifications are unchanged, there is no need to alter the reference cooler design either.

975X Platform

We already took a look at Intel's 975X dual graphics chipset roughly a month ago. In short: It is a small modification to the 955X that allows for two graphics cards via PCI Express to be used. Currently, ATI supports dual graphics Crossfire setups on the 975X platform - NVIDIA does not.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

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