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Core 2 Extreme 40% faster than Pentium EE 965?
Marc writes "As far as I know, this is the first time that Intel has talked about what we can expect from its new gaming CPU, Core 2 Extreme. For once, there is no word on power consumption on this new chip, but Intel talks about raw speed and a 40% gain over the current 3.73 GHz Extreme Edition 965 - which would be rather impressive and could indicate a problem for AMD. In this interview with TG Daily, Intel also claims that a Core 2 Extreme-based enthusiast PC will leave the pixel power of a Playstation 3 in the dust. Gamers, this appears to become the most exciting year for you in a long time!"
I'm not impressed even by their marketing numbers. When I bought my 386 it was way more than 2x the speed of my 286. My 486 was at least twice as fast as the 386, ditto the Pentium, K6 and Athlon.
40% faster? Who cares. Especially for games.
2 is always smaller than 3 - even for larger values of 2.
. . . until next year. : )
harmonious design
I would expect in actuality we would be seeing something like a 60-70% increase in speed. A company like Intel would probably estimate conservatively so as to not over-hype a new product.
Any word that reminds me of Vanilla Ice should be illegal.
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
The Intel Core Peregrine Duo versus the AMD Pulsaron64 X2 !!!
:-P
The most exiting round of CPU battles yet!
This sig rocks the casbah.
Shit, I've only got 1GB of ram.
Karnal
"could of" means nothing. The contraction is could've, as in "could have."
You may not be a native speaker, but I was born in Poland and am drunk.
How many fulltime jobs can one man have?
And I'm Irish, and I try to avoid redundancy.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I'm glad I'll finally be able to play solitaire at 800 FPS.