The dual core processors clarkdale LGA 1156 will be not the only 32 nm products, which Intel will present in first half of the following year. Intel will present a new six core processor for LGA 1366 platform : gulftown processors , which can work in the existing motherboard on base of chipset Intel x58 after Bios update.
Associate tested the engineering model gulftown processor stepping A0 .
First, the support of gulftown processors at the bios level is actually important for the speed, since in this test some limitations appeared in compatibility of memory frequency and north bridge processor. In the future bios versions these limitations will be removed. In the second place, gulftown processors introduce a hardware acceleration of coding due to the support of AES- NI instructions. In three-dimensional rendering tasks and video coding the presence of six cores with the support Of hyper-Threading is manifested, where optimization under multi core is made. For games similar optimization is not so characteristic, at least, if we deal with six cores.
The six-core processor gulftown proved to be sufficiently economical and cold. In overclock a good responsiveness increase to voltage is noted. With the use of an air cooler, it was possible to raise the frequency to 4.32 GHz. Related Products :
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