Intel 3.40EE & 3.60E - LGA Arrives

MBR writes "MBReview has taken a quick look at Intel's new high-end LGA775 processors, the 3.40GHz Extreme Edition, and the 3.60GHz 'E,' now known as the 560. They've covered some of the questions about pin frailty of the new LGA socket, as well as cooling issues that might arise from these new processors." ("LGA" stands for Land Grid Array, which moves pins from the processor to the socket it sits in.) Update: 06/19 20:50 GMT by T : Reader Chi-Energy points out that besides the new processor packaging, Intel has also just released its i925X and i915 chipsets, PCI Express and DDR2 DRAM for the desktop, and links to this review showcase with benchmarks at HotHardware.

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Re:Just look at the benchmarks

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't make a clockrate argument. My exact words were:

AMD chips are /much/ faster than Intel's at the same clockspeed

But they aren't running and can't run at the same clockspeeds. I suspect that without Marginally Extreme Cooling, AMD's chips would sizzle at Intel clockspeeds

See? I made no clockspeed/rate argument. I said that at the same clockspeed as an Intel chip, existing AMD chips would fry.

have not even been optimized for 64 bit yet!

Perhaps you mean they havn't been recompiled to use the larger number of registers available on the opteron yet?