Intel Harpertown (Penryn) Quad CPUs Benchmarked

unts writes "The Intel Developer Forum is currently running in San Francisco, and Intel is showing off the up-coming Harpertown processors based on the Penryn core. HEXUS got hands on with a test system and ran some performance tests: 'Harpertown is a better quad-core processor than Clovertown: it's as simple as that. More L2 cache will gobble-up larger application data-sets and a higher FSB, on select models, will ensure that per-CPU bandwidth is less of a concern.'"

New processor better than predecessor

[Anonymous Coward]

I am stunned.

cool I guess...

[tomstdenis]

Because of the article [er review...] I decided to check around for quad core 775s. Found the 2.4Ghz equiv of what I have already [except mine is a dual] for like 316$ or so [CAD]. Not bad. Then I realized, wtf do I need that for? Even with all the build jobs I do, rendering music (go lilypond!) and what not, the cpu already sits idle most of the time. If the chip was $150 I'd be more willing to shell out for it on a whim just for kicks. But 316 plus tax is around $360 or so. That's nearly a car payment. Can't really see myself doing that.

Damn it, I want my fast, multi-core, and CHEAP processors already ;-)

Re:New processor better than predecessor

[Rob Simpson]

I dunno, the last time my cooking turned out like the Pentium 4, I had to use the fire extinguisher. :(

Eight cores

[Matt Perry]

I'm waiting on Intel to take me to Funkytown.

Re:Could you...

[swimin]

A good cluster system is always redundant.