Intel's 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled

Synthetic: PC-Mark

• Page 1: Revamping The Core 2 Architecture - New Flagship: Extreme QX9650
• Page 2: New Dielectric Minimizes Leakage Currents
• Page 3: 45 nm - Higher Yield, Smaller Die Area
• Page 4: 12 MB L2 Cache And SSE 4
• Page 5: The Processor - Intel Core 2 QX9650
• Page 6: Overclocking I - 3.33 GHz
• Page 7: Overclocking II - 3.66 GHz
• Page 8: Overclocking III - 3.8 GHz
• Page 9: Overclocking IV - 4 GHz At Very High Voltage
• Page 10: Overclocking V - 4 GHz At FSB 1600
• Page 11: Overclocking - Up To 19% More Performance
• Page 12: Overclocking To 4.0 GHz - FSB1600 Offers No Advantage
• Page 13: Sensational: Idle Power Consumption Of Only 3.79 Watts
• Page 14: Very Good - 73 Watts For Four Cores
• Page 15: Lower Core Voltage - 1.250 Volts
• Page 16: Operating Temperature - 12°C Lower
• Page 17: Penryn-Based Core 2 CPUs - Models, Prices, New Boxed Cooler
• Page 18: New Boxed Cooler
• Page 19: Performance Comparison - Old Vs. New - 6.9% Better Performance
• Page 20: Test Setup
• Page 21: Software Configuration
• Page 22: Benchmarks And Settings
• Page 23: 3D Games: UT2004, Prey
• Page 24: 3D Games: Quake 4, Warhammer
• Page 25: 3D Games: Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
• Page 26: 3D Rendering: Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
• Page 27: Applications: AVG, WinRAR
• Page 28: Applications: Photoshop, PDF
• Page 29: Applications: Deep Fritz
• Page 30: Audio Encoding: ITunes, Lame
• Page 31: Synthetic: Sandra CPU
• Page 32: Synthetic: Sandra Memory
• Page 33: Synthetic: Sandra Multimedia
• Page 34: Synthetic: PC-Mark
• Page 35: Synthetic: 3D-Mark
• Page 36: Video Encoding: Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
• Page 37: Video Encoding: Premiere, MainConcept
• Page 38: Video Encoding: HDTV, DivX
• Page 39: Video Encoding: CloneDVD
• Page 40: Conclusion: Less Noise, More Efficiency, More Speed and More Overclocking Potential