Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 review

Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 is the name of latest monster processor from Intel. The chip giant has ironically enough chosen to launch its new, most expensive consumer processor at the same time as the stores starts their sales after Christmas. Pentium Extreme Edition 955 is continue where the Pentium 840 Extreme Edition left off. There are several similarities between them, both are based on the NetBurst architecture, dual cores and costs $1000. But there is also a whole bunch separating them, Pentium Extreme Edition 955 has been tuned in several manners where they have first of all shrunk the manufacturing process to 65nm. But new technologies such as Vanderpool and LaGrande are also additions to Intel’s new flagship. We have taken a closer look at Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and how Intel’s new processor performs can be read in our latest review.

“The goal was to release a processor at 4GHz, but this turned out to be too much. Intel has for the last year been working on setting their factories to use 65nm technology and it has according to information we’ve received already reached a productivity equal to the already refined 90nm process.”

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