Intel Dual Core Performance Preview Part I: First Encounter

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• michaelpatrick33 - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  AMD's dualcore will use less power and produce less heat apparently and last I checked an FX-51 (2200) out performs the Intel 3200 in a single core configuration so it will be interesting what a dualcore AMD at 2200 or 2400 will do compared to the Pentium 4 3200 dualcore. AMD is going after the busines market where the money and the desire for dual core will be greatest. Why isn't Intel going for that market? Interesting question.

• CrazyCurl - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  good review! cant wait to see more info. I am particularly interested in heat dissapation as well and would be nice to see the new unreal engine that supports multithreading benchmarks but that would be be a ways off id assume.
  
  Is the 955X gonna support pressler? is that why it has 1066 fsb and ddr-667?

• dragonflycms - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  How about a web developer test I constantly run these programs
  
  Dragonflycms 9.1.2
  Apache 1.3.9
  MySql 4.1
  PHP 4.0
  Photoshop 7.0
  Flash MX 2004
  Fireworks MX 2004
  Dreamweaver MX 2004
  Firefox
  Hydra IRC
  Messenger
  Yahoo Messenger
  
  The web server and mysql drastically effect the runing of the multimedia applications. This would be a great multitask test.
  
  

• cHodAXUK - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  #34 You are absolutly right there Anand, to this day I have still not had a single CPU system as responsive as my old dual O/C Celeron 550 machine. I ran it along side a P3/800 for a long time and always much prefered the Celeron box for general day to day tasks, hell my AMD 3500 feels damn fast most of the time but when I try multitask a bit too much it just takes forever to even get menus to pop down. Dual core is definately the way to go for the future, when the apps/games start to catch up with the technology everyone will wonder how they ever did without a multi core/cpu system.

• stephenbrooks - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  If it's any help to y'all asking about thermals, [H]ard|OCP says:
  
  "Our Intel 840 will have an operating voltage between 1.2V and 1.4V and have a Thermal Power Design of 130W"

• knitecrow - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  thanks Anand... it is the power consumption and power dissipation profiles that I really want to see.
  
  
  

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  oh and power consumption is coming... :)

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  Hans Maulwurf
  
  These usage scenarios were described by AnandTech readers in my recent request for benchmarks, they weren't anything prescribed by any hardware manufacturers.
  
  Ask anyone who has used a dual processor system, things are just smoother. The reason we've never recommended dual processors systems in the past is mostly because of price. In less than 3 months you should be able to, in theory, purchase a dual core processor for as little as $240. Not since the days of the dual Celeron 300A systems has dual processing been that affordable.
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• Slaimus - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  The best thing about dual core is that you do not need HT aware OS's anymore. It sucks when you want to run Win2000 with HT and getting slower speeds.

• Shlong - Monday, April 4, 2005 - link

  Instead of trying to take screenshots, maybe you could've used one of those desktop video capture programs to try to get a better visual representation of what you were trying to explain.