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Intel 6xx Series Reviewed and Benchmarked

Posted by Zonk on from the now-comes-in-sour-cream-and-onion dept.

sebFlyte writes "It's been a long time coming, but Intel's first 64-bit desktop chip (the 6xx series) is here now, and thanks to ZDNet it has been thoroughly tested. The article has the full specs of the new family, explains the benefits of the changes, and also the results of tests on the new chips to establish perfomance boosts for games, photo manipulation and video work, among other things."

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  1. Re:heating by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    100% of power consumed by a processor is converted to heat. 100%.

    So I guess the amount of electricity that flows out of the CPU to the different busses comes from the hamster pedalling inside the CPU?

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