Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 Reviews Hit the Web

Web-Sites Adore Intel’s New Chip

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 01/04/2006 | 11:05 PM ]

Intel Corp. recently officially released the world’s first 65nm x86 microprocessor code-name Presler. The new chip utilizes the company’s NetBurst architecture and offers only a slight performance improvement compared to the dual-core chips made using 90nm fabrication process, still, the new product allowed Intel to claim victory over to-date fastest offering from Advanced Micro Devices at least in some cases.

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Intel Pentium Extreme Edition model 955 operates at 3.46GHz and utilizes 1066MHz processor system bus as well as 4MB of cache in total, or 2MB per core. The new chip supports Hyper-Threading technology for both cores thus allowing execution of up to four software threads simultaneously. The new chip also features Intel virtualization technology as well as other platform innovations, such as EM64T, EDB and iAMT2. The new chip is only compatible with mainboards based on Intel 975X chipset.

Because this microprocessor is positioned as a top, high-performance offering, as well as the first x86 processor manufactured with 65nm technology, a number of web-sites have posted reviews, describing performance level, overclockability and features.

“Given a smaller manufacturing process, it would have been remiss of us not to overclock the sample. As seen on the previous page, we were able to overclock it, via an increase in the multiplier from a factor of 13 to 16, to an overall speed of 4267MHz, using a reference Intel LGA775 cooler and default voltages,” wrote Hexus.net.

“Pentium Extreme Edition 955 is not an eternal loser in the dual-core duel anymore. There are a lot of applications where Pentium Extreme Edition 955 managed to defeat AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+, the top dual-core solution from Intel’s competitor. In fact, AMD processor remains the leader only in gaming applications, in professional OpenGL tasks and a few codecs,” said X-bit labs analyst Ilya Gavrichenkov.

The new chip is expected to be available shortly at the price of $999 in 1000-unit quantities.

• bit-tech.net: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955.
• Hexus.net: Intel Extreme Edition 955 Processor.
• HotHardware.com: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 & 975X Express Chipset: 65nm is Here.
• Legit Reviews: Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 955.
• LostCircuits: Intel’s ExtremeEdition P4 955.
• NordicHardware: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955.
• PC Perspective: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and 975X Chipset Review.
• Sudhian Media: Presler: Intel Extreme Edition 955 – Prescott’s Last Hurrah.
• TrustedReviews: Intel Extreme Edition 955 and i975x Chipset.
• Viperlair.com: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 & Intel 975X Express Chipset.
• X-bit labs: First Look at Presler: Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 CPU Review.