Penryn Arrives: Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Review @ Extremetech
 

*Review: Extremetech (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...08241,00.asp)*
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The last time Intel moved an existing CPU line to a new manufacturing process was with the ill-fated Prescott CPU. Prescott was a derivative of the Pentium 4 architecture. Those were in the bad old days, where clock frequency was king and real men ran processors that generated blast furnace heat levels. Moving to 65nm was supposed to mitigate the Pentium 4's tendency to eat power like a pig in a slop trough. Alas, Prescott proved even hotter than its predecessor.

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