Intel on Track to Release Its Fastest Pentium Wolfdale Yet
Intel on Track to Release Its Fastest Pentium Wolfdale Yet
Posted 12/08/2009 at 6:06am
| by Paul Lilly
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We get it - times are tough, and no matter how tempting it might be jump into a Core i5 / i7 setup, for some, practicality dictates holding on to the current platform and squirreling away any extra funds for a rainy day. Or you can use part of it to invest in Intel's upcoming dual-core E6600 processor and revel in the fact that you spent but a pittance for the fastest Pentium dual-core Wolfdale 45nm processor on the planet.
According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, Intel is still on track to release its 45nm E6600 on January 17, 2010, barely a month out of reach. And the best part? Barring any last minute curve balls from Intel, it should sit on retail shelves for a mere $84, which is what it costs today for an E6500. The E6500 is expected to drop down to $74.
That's not a bad bang for your buck if you're stuck using an LGA 775 platform. For not much more than a sit-down dinner and a movie for two, the E6600 brings to the table two processor cores clocked at 3.06GHz, the first wolfdale to breach the 3GHz mark, and push data through a 1066MHz frontside bus. It also boasts 2MB of L2 cache and a 65W TDP.
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quickone
December 08, 2009 at 9:29am
Fasest Pentium woohoo, that's like winning the special olympics.
Seems like if you wanted to go really cheap one would go with AMD, especially since they have that quad under $100 that sports fairly impressive results as per the MPC benchmarking article and it isn't going down a dead end as far as socket type.
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sinan
December 08, 2009 at 7:21am
Fastest Wolfdale on the planet?
What about the E8500 & E8600. Too much Eggnogg?
Paul_Lilly
December 08, 2009 at 7:39am
Good catch - that should have read 'fastest Pentium dual-core 45nm Wolfdale.' These have less L2 cache (2MB vs 3MB or 6MB) than the Core 2 Duo Wolfdales.
-Paul Lilly
Ilander
December 08, 2009 at 2:56pm
I wonder if this will cause a price drop in the AII x3's...the fact that it's priced around there means Intel considers it a competitor, after all.
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