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Intel Conroe A Thing Of The Past
Posted by: Anonymous on Nov 05, 2006 - 11:00 PM
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Details on the new Intel quad-core "Kentsfield" chips will be released next Wednesday night, and systems will begin shipping soon after.
According to OEM sources, the first previews and most likely pricing of the new chips will be released on Nov. 1 at 9 PM Pacific time. OEMs will likely begin taking orders on or around that date, with shipments tentatively scheduled for Nov. 15.
Intel's Kentsfield is anticipated to help boost Intel's fortunes, which took a hit during the year's of AMD's dominance with its Athlon single- and dual-core chips. AMD's own "4x4" platform, two dual-core chips tied together with a HyperTransport connection, is expected to launch on or about Nov. 14.
However, the 4x4 platform and Kentsfield are similar in some respects. "You can think of the QX6700 Quad as a pair of Core 2 E6700 dies built into one CPU package," Loyd Case wrote in his initial evaluation of the chip. "The clock frequency and front-side-bus speed are the same. Both dies each have 4MB of L2 cache. The L2 cache is shared between the two cores on the same die, but not shared across dies. This really is very much a repeat of the original Intel Smithfield CPU, which paired two Pentium 4 dies into a single package and dubbed it a dual-core CPU."
Originally, the Kentsfield data was scheduled to be released on Nov. 15, which left OEMs scrambling to finalize both production and review systems, according to sources.
Intel has said previously that its chip will be referred to as Core 2 Extreme QX6700; ExtremeTech reviews of the chip concluded that while it's great for video, gaming performance will be dependent on how many application threads games include. Single-threaded games won't see little if any improvement from the multicore aspect, while multithreaded applications like video editing experience significant improvement.
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