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Asus Demos First Intel P55
adeelarshad82 writes "Intel's X58 chipset is the platform of choice for enthusiasts, but Intel serves a heck of a big audience. To please that larger crowd and bring down prices, the company is planning a mainstream iteration of its Nehalem architecture: the P55 chipset. It's designed to work with the forthcoming Lynnfield CPUs, and offers performance close to LGA1366 chips at a much cheaper price. Recently Asus demoed its first intel P55 chip and released exclusive photos. Asus claims to have run its new boards with engineering samples of the Core i5-750 at a 77 percent overclock, boosting speeds from 2.66 GHz to 4.7 GHz. Asus admits this wasn't necessarily stable, but still — that's fast. And on liquid cooling, the boards reportedly hit speeds of 5.1 GHz."
There's no such thing as "chip performance". All that matters is tastiness.
You say that, but then someone hands you a bag of chips made with Olestra and sure they're tasty but in about half an hour you'll be feeling the importance of chip "performance".
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That's the version that will ship with MMX, which I am very excited about!
Seriously, I love when big companies start recycle product names / numbers fifteen years later.