A TAIWANESE OVERCLOCKER has posted screenshots of an Intel 45nm Pentium processor, which has not even been announced yet.

The entry-level 45nm processor is shown at both stock speed and overclocked in a thread on the Taiwanese forum, Coolaler.

Screenshots show that in CPU-Z the chip is listed as being a Pentium E5200 with a 45nm Wolfdale core. It also records a clock speed of 2.5GHz, 2MB of cache, and 800MHz front-side bus.

When it comes to overclocking, stats displayed in the thread’s second lot of screenshots shows the chip running at 4GHz with the FSB set to 320MHz (1280MHz effective) and the voltage up from 1.208 to 1.384V.

The closest existing processor, the Pentium E2200 sells at around $80 and the Core 2 Duo E7200 which is similar in specifications goes for about $130, running at 2.53GHz with 3MB of cache and a 1066MHz FSB.

So, it could be a fair guess to assume that this new processor could go for around $100, something both overclockers and those of a less inquisitive nature should be fairly happy to shell out. µ

L’Inq
Coolaler forum thread (Chinese)