BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Merom supports SSE4, as badhardware found long time ago. But do you think that mPGA 479 socket will drive announced 64bit until Santa Rosa platform chipset (that will support 800Mhz FSB speed) when arrive in 2007? I am not so sure. Beside, Merom T5600 at 1,8Ghz will use only 2MB L2. But, please note Merom's core speed: 997Mhz. Thus, there is no such a thing like a fixed clock at Merom. Its 2Ghz clock is something it hits only sporadically. So its max performance. Like Super PI25 for model T7200. Add to that Bus Speed of only 667 MHz. Doesn't seem like monster when announced in September. Of course, it will be launched earlier, but alas on paper only.
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