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Robson:

"Intel provided a number of benchmarks for the new technology at IDF, but it was the real-world demonstration of Robson caching on Battlefield 2 that was most compelling. Theory is all well and good, but the real question is: will my levels load faster? It turns out that they will.

"During the Digital Home Keynote, two gamers loaded up Battlefield 2. Both were systems equipped with Pentium 955 Extreme Edition CPUs and ATI CrossFire X1900s. One system implemented Robson, the other was stock. The system with Robson booted Battlefield 2 and loaded the level nearly 30 seconds ahead of the standard system. While it's not quite the competitive advantage for gamers that the demo suggested, imagine working with large Photoshop files, 3ds max or other applications with large memory footprints that swap a lot of data to disk.""

in, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060314-6376.html
 
Rahul said:
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Robson:
"Intel provided a number of benchmarks for the new technology at IDF, but it was the real-world demonstration of Robson caching on Battlefield 2 that was most compelling. Theory is all well and good, but the real question is: will my levels load faster? It turns out that they will.
"During the Digital Home Keynote, two gamers loaded up Battlefield 2. Both were systems equipped with Pentium 955 Extreme Edition CPUs and ATI CrossFire X1900s. One system implemented Robson, the other was stock. The system with Robson booted Battlefield 2 and loaded the level nearly 30 seconds ahead of the standard system. While it's not quite the competitive advantage for gamers that the demo suggested, imagine working with large Photoshop files, 3ds max or other applications with large memory footprints that swap a lot of data to disk.""
in, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060314-6376.html
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AFAIK Robson is for laptops. The similar techology for Desktop is called Snowgrass.
 
I hope it aint an April fools joke though, coz they claim the conroe is coming to them tomoro, thats too much of a coincidence :p.
 
Rahul said:
4ghz conroe on air :

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94332
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hmm rahul did u care to read through the thread. they are speculating on 4 Ghz.... its not done yet..... + due to the FSB limitation and low multipliers, it will be really difficult to get non-ES or non-XE chips to 4 Ghz because you simply cant take the FSB to 2 Ghz can you? (500 mhz quad-pumped.)

But its preety exciting. Lets see the results when they come out Sunday early morning for us....
 
Hehe.. old news... but I think 4 GHz is possible with a decent board. I think that thread shows the change... Intel section having more guys then AMD Section in last 2 years :D
 
Update on pricing.



Core Extreme Edition Series - 1333MHz FSB, EM64T, EIST, VT, SSE4

Core Extreme Edition - 3.33GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 95W - $___ - Q4

Core E6000 Series - 1066MHz FSB, EM64T, EIST, VT, SSE4

Core E6800 - 2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $___ - Q4

Core E6700 - 2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $529 - Q3

Core E6600 - 2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $315 - Q3

Core E6400 - 2.13GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $240 - Q3

Core E6300 - 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $210 - Q3

Core E4000 Series - 800MHz FSB, EM64T, EIST, SSE4

Core E4200 - 1.6GHz, 800MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $___ - Q3

2.4 Ghz for 300$!!! WoooT!!! :hap2:
 
I would like to wait till its out.. as shorter pipes can hamper OC ability... but 2.4G seems decent enough to beat 2.8G AMD-DC :) and Yes I think 3.0-3.2GHz will be a sweet spot if you can get there.
 
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