Intel’s Dual-Core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Performance Pre-Preview

There are already many environments where a dual-core processor will outclass a non-threaded chip, such as media encoding, rendering, and the everyday multi-tasking in which you engage, behavior thatâ€™s very hard to quantify.

Already we can see some cases where dual-core really shines, but is the technology ready for primetime? Only time will tellâ€¦

Drool…wow, I definitely want to get one of these. How in the hell are you going to effectively cool this beast though? There are already problems cooling a single prescott…I know the next generation is going to be based off of a different architecture, but still..wow.