Intel Dual Core CPU snapped everywhere

FIRST, Anandtech which received the system as early as last week with the NDA expiring this morning. That lot actually reviewed three new products, the Pentium D - which is the dual core version of the P4, - the Pentium Extreme Edition Dual core and the new chipset i955X. Loads of benchmarks with some new ones which supposedly reflect the way most people work. Probably one of the better dual core reviews out there.

Legit Reviews on the other hand, concentrate more on the Pentium EE 840 which is the name given to the P EE - note that there is no "4" attached. Over eight pages, they test it again the P4 3.73Ghz and the P4 640. No AMD comparison here.

Hexus also has a review of the EE 840 and the associated chipset. The same set of Powerpoint slides are also present. Note that the Dual core allows up to four logical units to be detected by the OS. The day of eight logical units on dual CPU motherboards is not so far. Usual set of benchmarks, usual results.

British website Trusted reviews also has laid its hands on the EE840 and unsurprisingly finds it performing very much like their own dual Xeons despite the latter being much older. As for the other reviews, significant gains were obtained on multi tasking/threading situations.

Oddly, the grand daddy of hardware sites, Tomshardware, hasn't yet published a review of the processor.

Not really a review but one of the first photos of AMD Dual core processors has appeared at Chinese website HKEPC. The Dual Core Opteron 64 should require nothing more than a BIOS update. According to our chinese friends, it will carry two 1MB cache and will run a 2.2GHz.

German site K-hardware has two reviews, the first one is that of the Pentium 4 660 and the EE 3.73Ghz processors, proof that Intel is doing a good job this time in delivering processors - at least to reviewers. Ten benchmarks to come forth. The second one is the Compro Videomate DVB-U2000 which is an USB external TV tuner box from a lesser known company. Comes with a remote control and does a pretty good job at receiving telly.

Techconnect compares the performance of a Dual 6600GT to that of ta dual 6800 in a SLI show down - using MSI and Asus cards respectively. After four benchmarks, it appears that the 6600GT wins hands down on price/performance.

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