Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955
@ 2005/12/27The 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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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.
Link:
"On the other hand, all this enthusiasm about the lower power consumption of the 65nm processor cores vanishes when we try to compare it against the competitor from AMD. Well, this is the peculiarity of the NetBurst architecture: it is not economical and there is nothing we can do about it."
"As for the thermal mode, the maximum temperature of the Pentium Extreme Edition 955 processor overclocked to 4.26GHz (under full workload) reached 79o C. "
My money goes to AMD Opty 165; I know I could have decent oc and pretty nice temp; say in the 50's °C with simple air cooling.