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

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Intel Processors (Socket 775)
FSB1066 Pentium EE 840 Presler (3466 MHz 12KµOps+16/2048 kB)
FSB800 Pentium D 840 Smithfield (3200 MHz 12KµOps+16/1024 kB)Pentium D 830 Smithfield (3000 MHz 12KµOps+16/1024 kB)Pentium D 820 Smithfield (2800 MHz 12KµOps+16/1024 kB)
FSB1066 Pentium 4 EE 3.72 GHz Prescott (3724 MHz 12KµOps+16/2048 kB)Pentium 4 EE 3.46 GHz Gallatin (3466 MHz 12KµOps+16/1024/2048 kB)
FSB800 Pentium 4 EE 3.40 GHz Gallatin (3400 MHz 12KµOps+16/1024/2048 kB)
FSB800 Pentium 4 670 Prescott (3800 MHz 12KµOps+16/1024 kB)
AMD Processors (Socket 939)
HTT1000 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo (2400 MHz 64+64/1024 kB)Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Manchester (2400 MHz 64+64/512 kB)Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo (2200 MHz 64+64/1024 kB)Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester (2200 MHz 64+64/512 kB)Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester (2000 MHz 64+64/512 kB)
HTT1000 Athlon 64 FX-57 San Diego (2800 MHz 64+64/1024 kB)Athlon 64 FX-55 San Diego (2600 MHz 64+64/1024 kB)
HTT1000 Athlon 64 FX-55 Clawhammer (2600 MHz 64+64/1024 kB)
Motherboards
Socket 775 Asus P5WD2-E PremiumRev. 1.01G Bios: 00204 (12/14/2005)Chipset: Intel 975X
Socket 939 ASUS A8N32-SLI DeluxeRev. 1.01 Bios: 0806Chipset: NVIDIA 32 SLI
Memory
DDR2-667 2 x 512 MB - DDR2-533/667 (400 MHz)Infineon HYS64T64000GU-3.7-A (CL 4.0-4-4-8)
DDR400 2 x 512 MB - DDR400 - (200 MHz)GEIL GLX1 GB3200DC (CL 2.0-2-2-5 1T)
Common Hardware
Graphics Card (PCIe) Gigabyte GV-NX78X256V-BGPU: NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX (430 MHz)Memory: 256 MB GDDR3 (1200 MHz)
Hard Drive HD1 - read / HD2 - write2 x SATA Western Digital WD160160 GB / 16 MB Cache / 7200 rpm
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Sound Card Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space96.00 kHz sample rate
Software
Intel Chipset Intel 7.2.1.1003 (07/11/2005)
NVIDIA nForce 4 Forceware 6.82
NVIDIA Graphic Detonator 81.95 (12/09/2005)
DirectX Version: 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2
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.