Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Tech Link (Processor): Kentsfield sighting!

While Conroe hasn't been officially released yet, the four core (dual dual core) version of Conroe has been seen already. A famous overclocker and enthusiast, coolaler, has posted some screenies of this processor, showing four SP2004 running at one time along with MS* Windows task manager showing four instances of CPU at 100% load.

His set-up runs on MSI motherboard, with 1GB of DDR2 RAM. He partnered it with an equally powerful GPU runnoing on 7950G2X. The power comes from a hearty 850w Zippy, and the processor is cooled by the ever reliable Tuniq Tower 120. Below is the full specifications (taken from his posting):

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe E66008mb cache Kentsfield
Cooler:Tower 120
Motherboard: MSI 975X Platinum 2.b
Memory: Corsair DDRII 8000ul 512X2 Dual Channel
Hard Drive: Maxtor 300g SATAII 16Mb Cache
Video Card: COLORFUL 7950G2X
Power Supply: Zippy 850W
Operating System:WIN XP SP2

Source:XS

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