BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Honestly, 2,93GHz Conroe XE (Core 2 Extreme)(65nm, 4MB L2, Dual Core, 1066FSB)
model X6800 costs $999.Though, there were some "confident" reports on its 4,5Ghz. By the way, top Conroe clock is (s)lower than current Celeron's. Yeah, Pentium Extreme Edition 965 is overclocked up to 5,8Ghz so what? Never in practice. Beside, even before its life cycles started, Conroe seems less overclockable than the old, dying PEE 965, at the end of its life!? Isn't that a bit weird? Telling us something about Conroe future clock ambitions. And pretty short life cycle. Compare with Conroe March leak at badhardware. Then Intel was much more optimistic. Only two months ago.

Segment	H1 2006	H2 2006	H1 2007
Extreme	Presler XE (Pentium Extreme Edition) (65nm, 2 x 2MB L2, Dual Core, 1066FSB, HT, VT) 965 (3.73GHz) 955 (3.46GHz)	Conroe XE (Core 2 Extreme) (65nm, 4MB L2, Dual Core, 1066FSB) X6800 (2.93GHz)	Kentsfield XE (65nm, 2 x 4MB L2, Quad Core) X8xxx
Performance /Mainstream	Presler (Pentium D) (65nm, 2 x 2MB L2, Dual Core, 800FSB, VT) 960 (3.6GHz) 950 (3.4GHz) 940 (3.2GHz) 930 (3.0GHz) 920 (2.8GHz)	Conroe (Core 2 Duo) (65nm, 4MB L2, Dual Core, 1066FSB) E6700 (2.67GHz) E6600 (2.4GHz) E6400 (2.13GHz) E6300 (1.86GHz) E4200 (2.66GHz, 800FSB) Presler (Pentium D) (65nm, 2 x 2MB L2, Dual Core, 800FSB) 945 (3.4GHz) 925 (3.0GHz) 915 (2.8GHz)	Kentsfield (65nm, 2 x 4MB L2, Quad Core) E8xxx
Value	Prescott-V (Celeron D) (90nm, 256KB L2, 533FSB) 355 (3.33GHz) 346 (3.0GHz) 336 (2.8GHz)	Cedarmill-V (Celeron D) (65nm, 512KB L2, 533FSB) 360 (3.46GHz) 356 (3.33GHz) 352 (3.20GHz)	Conroe-L (65nm, 512KB L2, 533/800FSB) 5xx 3xx

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