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Intel's Penryn Benchmarked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the slightly-faster-than-my-286 dept.

Steve Kerrison writes "Intel's keen to show off its up-coming 45nm Penryn Core 2 CPU. HEXUS had some hands on time with the new processor to get an idea of how well it will perform once its released: 'Intel's new 45nm Penryn core adds more than just a clock and FSB hike, so much so that even a dual-core Penryn is able to beat out a quad-core QX6800 under certain circumstances.'"

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  1. which brings up a point... by plasmacutter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    arent most app developers still working their way into SSE3? (for instance, mplayer only mentions sse2 in configuration and initialization, and from what i remember even macos intel doesnt fully utilize sse3)

    what's the point of even trying for SSE3 or even SSE4 when theyll just plunk down SSE5 within the next 6 months..

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    VLC FOR MAC IS DYING! IF YOU DEVELOP, PLEASE SAVE IT!!
  2. Is this a laptop chip by bcmm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    According to Wikipedia, Penryn is intended as a laptop processor.

    Does it seem odd to anyone else for Intel to launch a new instruction set on a laptop CPU? Are portables that dominant these days?

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    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  3. Re:I really wanted to read that.... by Tom+Womack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Firefox NoScript is the answer to all this kind of stupidity; I think it's worth using Firefox for NoScript alone.

    Also, remind your hosts file that intellitxt.com is a synonym for 127.0.0.1

    Yes, this is depriving hexus of advertising revenue. If they want advertising revenue, they should produce adverts which do not deeply infuriate their readers. Intelligently-targetted intellitxt might be actually usable, but to have every occurence of 'computer' hyperlinked to Dell's store is of no use to anybody.

  4. a review you can actually read by Tom+Womack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    www.anandtech.com has a presumably very similar review (since these are lists of benchmarks which the journalists observed being run by Intel on Intel-provided systems), and enough bandwidth that you can actually get through to it.

    It's a little annoying that these chips require different voltage regulators from the ones on current motherboards, since the chipsets are the same and changing the motherboard adds £80, some hours of fuss and an inordinate number of screws to what should be a trivial CPU upgrade, whilst bare motherboards, and even motherboard+CPU pairs, don't seem to sell well on ebay.

  5. Re:I really wanted to read that.... by GIL_Dude · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly. I didn't see any ads there at all and none of these text bombs people wrote about.