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Preview of Intel's Dual-Core Extreme Edition

Posted by Hemos on from the kicking-the-tires dept.

ThinSkin writes "Intel let ExtremeTech.com sneak behind the curtain of its anticipated Dual-Core Pentium Extreme Edition processor for a full performance preview with benchmarks. Bundled with essentially two Prescott cores on one die, the Extreme Edition 840 processor clocks at 3.2GHz and contains a beefed-up power management system to keep the CPUs running cool during use. Expect Intel's dual-core line to hit the streets sometime this quarter. No word on pricing yet." Update: 04/04 17:26 GMT by T : Timmus points out FiringSquad's preview, too, writing "The benchmark results are mixed, with a few applications taking advantage of the new CPU, and some that don't." And Kez writes in reference to this article to say: "Our article on HEXUS.net, covering the P4 EE in detail, states the price as £650 (that's what we're looking at in the UK anyway, not sure about the U.S.)."

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  1. How well does it do... by kwoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    On SlashMark? Namely, how many seconds does it take to compile the Linux kernel? :P

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    1. Re:How well does it do... by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 5, Funny

      how many seconds does it take to compile the Linux kernel?

      if you press the 'turbo' button it goes twice as fast.

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    2. Re:How well does it do... by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Funny

      with its advanced predictive branching and speculative execution, the processor will have several kernels with the most commonly used options compiled for you 0.25 seconds before you finish typing "make "

    3. Re:How well does it do... by cptgrudge · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's nothing. Quantum computers will compile for you before you even type "ma".

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  2. Sweet! by kmartshopper · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... something else we can use to make breakfast with!

  3. Holy Cow... by Robotron23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    We recently returned from a road trip to discover a very large box waiting for us.

    If the processors that big how the heck will I fit it on my motherboard?!

    1. Re:Holy Cow... by pla · · Score: 5, Funny

      If the processors that big how the heck will I fit it on my motherboard?!

      Well, the processor itself only takes a few square inches - The rest of the box held the liquid nitrogen cooling system needed to keep the thing slightly cooler than the surface of the sun.

  4. There is also a new dual-core error correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If one of the cores generates a floating-point error, the other core can be used to correct the problem by adding both errors together to derive a slightly larger error.

  5. Dear Intel, by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's great that you are developing new products.

    However, because of your poor form of not making documentation or firmware freely available, I will instead be sending my personal dollars, and (significantly larger) work budget, to AMD.

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  6. Re:Like, Extreme, to the, like, totally max! by mikael · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow, Extremium and Extremon don't seem to have the same rhyme. Next up from Intel, the Ultra-Spifftronic-Wowee-Zappo Triple Core, with extra schmaltz! The local ice-cream van used to sell those during the Summer holidays - you had to eat them immediately, otherwise they would melt before you got inside.

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  7. Re:Extreme edition by drivinghighway61 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Extreme editions always sell more. Just look at the adult entertainment industry. Which would you rather buy?

    Double Anal Penetration
    EXTREME Double Anal Penetration

    Chocolate Asian Anal Gangbangs
    EXTREME Chocolate Asian Anal Gangbangs

    American Heroes Bukkake
    EXTREME American Heroes Bukkake

    I think we can all agree that Intel is on the right track.

  8. Dual core ? by Pop69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean I'll be able to fry two eggs at once ?

  9. Just have to ask... by IdJit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it have a hemi?

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  10. This is so exciting! by alta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now the spyware on all my users's machines will have a processor all to themselves. That means the users will have the second processor to run Word, excel, et al...

    That means they'll leave me alone and quit bitching about slow machines for a while! Woohoo! Oh, and will help that winword.exe that keeps crashing and staying backgrounded. Woot!

    (Yes, I know the spyware will take over both proc's. Let me dream)

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  11. Re:Like, Extreme, to the, like, totally max! by SilentChris · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kind of reminds me of the old MST3K skit.

    Crow: Hey Mike!
    Tom: Hi Mike!
    Mike: What's going on?
    Tom: EXTREME! That's what's going on Mike!
    Crow: Yeah, Mike! You should try it!
    Mike: Extreme what exactly?
    Crow: Well, take me for example. I'm into extreme Yoga... SURRRRRRGE!!!!
    Tom: And I'm into philatily. I own you Venezulea 1947! Extreeeme postage! Woo!
    Crow: Now have you thought about what you'd like to be extreme about, Mike?
    Tom: No fear, Miguel.
    Mike: I'm not really extre...oh, you know what? I really like rice.
    Crow: Ahh, well, EXTREME... RICE!!
    Tom: Rice! Thermo nuclear protection! Wooo!
    Crow: Yeah! See, Mike. Isn't rice better when it's extreme?
    Mike: Sure is, uh, we'll be right back.
    Crow: WAAAOOO!!
    Tom: Haaaaaa!!

  12. Ahem. by hawk · · Score: 5, Funny

    ON a quantum compiler, it's both compiled (with avery combination of options) and not compiled already :)

    hawk