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Penryn previewed at Anand's

kinda disappointed, i thought Penryn would have given a bigger boost, it even ends up losing out in a small number of the tests
 
3.2 GHz with 1.15v is disappointing to you? Imagin what that thing will do with 1.4-1.5v. :eek:
 
Why in the world would they perform the OC test with 800Mhz memory?

I have a feeling they pushed the RAM farther than it could handle rather than the CPU.
 
SuperKeijo said:
3.2 GHz with 1.15v is disappointing to you? Imagin what that thing will do with 1.4-1.5v. :eek:
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my 6420 does 3.2 on stock voltage =p? why would I upgrade? If im going to buy a new cooler, I Could push this thing too, for less $, my disappointment was in the performance gain clock for clock with a Conroe cpu
 
They need to redesign that graphics in the first page.

My boss (who isn't tech savvy) looked over my shoulders and said "whats that? Looks like a bunch of penises"

:p
 
SuperKeijo said:
3.2 GHz with 1.15v is disappointing to you? Imagin what that thing will do with 1.4-1.5v. :eek:
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Well... my G0 Kentsfield does 3195MHz at 1.168V and 3330MHz at 1.216V, so I've pretty much got myself a Penryn, minus the extra 4MB cache and 5-10% clock for clock. :p
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
my 6420 does 3.2 on stock voltage =p? why would I upgrade? If im going to buy a new cooler, I Could push this thing too, for less $, my disappointment was in the performance gain clock for clock with a Conroe cpu
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do you realize its 460 bus speed w/ 1.15 voltage?

that's 4ghz w/ 9 x multipler ( high end wolfdale) on 1.15 voltage
 
Overall it looks to be about 5-10% faster at 10% less power consumption. Overclocking will undoubtedly be good, but that is not a factor that decides the vast majority of chip sales. The conclusion sums it up quite nicely:

Anandtech said:
After Intel's price cuts we mentioned that despite Penryn's imminent launch, CPUs had gotten too affordable to pass up building a system now if you needed. Now that we have a general idea of clock-for-clock performance differences between Conroe and Wolfdale, we're not nearly as worried about recommending that you build systems today as we once were. There's no doubt that Wolfdale is faster clock-for-clock, but keep in mind that you won't see Wolfdale until Q1 of next year and the performance advantage simply isn't great enough to justify delaying a purchase by 6+ months if you need a system now.
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I do plan on purchasing one, however. :)
 
Looks like you need some more multipliers to reach beyond 4ghz since these are 333fsb unless you have crazy mobos that does 600fsb.

Not much an improvement 10-20% because cache size and sse4. I would rather have 266fsb with higher multiplier so we can really see what these chips do.
 
it was low end wolfdale in preview... high end will have 9x multiplier i
 
PeeWeePee said:
it was low end wolfdale in preview... high end will have 9x multiplier i
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Well I'm not rich. I can't afford high end crap. Even with 9x multiplier if you don't have a board that can take it 500fsb it won't be worth it for most people. Not to mention you need memory that can handle 500fsb.

I just wish they had 266fsb version of the processor like conroe.
 
Yup, can't go wrong with a 65nm Quad core now...

10 percent was about what I was expecting, just from the die shrink and 50 percent cache increase (which IMO, is not as big a concern for most everyday applications once you go beyond 1 or 2MB per core)

There is one particular instruction that will help boost Divx encoding right away, but thats a highly specialized instruction/app.

Price may be the main factor here, at launch the new 45nm processors might be a little high for some - then falling to what most consumers see as commoditizable 6 months later.
 
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