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ASUS has reported that the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955, will deliver two 3.46GHz clocked cores on the same substrate at 1066MHz FSB. Each of the two cores comes with Hyperthhreading technology, making a total of four threads in Windows Task Manager. Each core also spots 2MB of L2 cache, bringing a total of 4MB cache. With the price set at $999, Intel is heavily under pricing AMD's FX-60 and 5000+, which will sell for a daunting 20% more. The Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 CPU is also one of the first 65nm processors using Vanderpool Technology, VT or simply - virtualisation technology, which will tie the four cores together and enable multiple operating systems to run at the same time.


65nm + 1066MHz FSB + 4MB Cache + Vanderpool =

Sources: The Inq & ASUS

Sounds like a nice chip, but $999 is way more than I would ever even think about paying for a processor (or any single computer part for that matter).
Thanks for the preview though, I'm definately excited to see some new products hit the market!
Is Pressler the core actually has two physical cores on the same chip but they are actually separated? As in the two cores are not mushed together and touching?

gvblake22 wrote:Sounds like a nice chip, but $999 is way more than I would ever even think about paying for a processor (or any single computer part for that matter).
Thanks for the preview though, I'm definately excited to see some new products hit the market!
Is Pressler the core actually has two physical cores on the same chip but they are actually separated? As in the two cores are not mushed together and touching?

The current pentium d's are 2 seperate chips....If you could see under the heatspreader, you'd see 2 cores with a space between. Intel said the current Pentium D's were a "rush job", and it shows......
The new gen dual cores will be 1 chip, using 65nm process.

Intel must be doing what M$ are doing with the xbox.....selling at a cost!
Mayby if they get in early this time they can make some money back that they lost with the 925X chipsets?
2x2mb sounds super! The only prob Intel has is the shared FSB......AMD licenced SSE2/3 why doesn't Intel licence Hypertransport? (pipe-dream I know, but it would be cool to bring the best of both worlds to make 1 real cpu.)

Looks like two that are apart ;)

Jez their big!!! The take up nearly all the real estate under the heatspreader!


That Itanium (Montecito) looks massive! 24MB cache? (10yr bank loan to pay for it too!)


added pic for reference!

Yeah, that's exactly the pic I was looking for! Thanks Nate.
Should be some interesting products indeed!
I'll ask this again though:
Is Presler still based on the current Prescott Pentium 4 architecture? Is Conroe the desktop chip that is supposed to be all new and more efficient like Dothan?

Presler is the same as current...... Anandtech have details too....


details on Conroe here (new chip design)

kenc51 wrote:Presler is the same as current...... Anandtech have details too....


details on Conroe here (new chip design)

aaahhh, yes, thanks for clearing some of that up. Very good links, thanks

Look real nice, but man that alot of money

The Presler might be quad-pumping data, but did they learn a lesson from AMD and integrate the memory controller on the die? If not, I'll still take an AMD X2 due to the reduced latency of having an on-die mem controller.....just curious