Penryn hits 3.33GHz and 1600fsb

[keithwalton]

L'Inq http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38566
Has alot of new bumpf today on the upcoming penryn core from intel, the most interesting bit to me is clockspeeds.

The sort of speeds overclockers are using now with the conroe core are going to become default with the penryn core. They are talking fsb of 1600mhz (up from 1333 of current conroe, 1066 of original conroe) and clock speeds in excess of 3GHz
Towards the end of the article they mention they expect intel to be releasing chips around the 3.2GHz mark until they get competition from amd's barc'a core, however they also mention that they were demo'd a machine running at 3.33GHz already, these must be the second batch of penryns to arrive out of the fabs. They dont say whether this was a dual or quad core part.

Power requirements are going to remain similar mainly with the increasing clock speed eating up any decrease involtage the good news for us 975x owners that chips are compatible via bios update though a 1600fsb is going to remove most of the overclocking headroom!

I'd expect these chips to be released within the next 6 months, most likely around amd barc'a time frame, the penryn core has lots of tweaks to it and they expect it to be clock for clock on par or ahead of barc'a and well its going to have a raw clockspeed advantage too

[keithwalton]

Some more info http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2955

i think i'll wait for penryn then rather than go for kentsfield esp if it will work in my p5w-dh