Technologies and Efficiency

What's New?

Intel has improved on some old, and has implemented some new, technologies with the Core I7 Nehalem Processors they are:

• New LGA 1366 or Socket B Processor- the processor is 20% (60x82mm) larger than its predecessor the Core 2. This increases the number of contact points between the CPU and mounting socket. The first compatible LGA 1336 motherboard will be called the X58.
• Turbo Boost- With turbo boost enabled in your BIOS, an added boost of power will be directed to as few as one or all four cores when the demand of an application requires maximum workload.
• Hyper-Threading- now at 8X which will optimize multi-tasking and ease of use with highly threaded applications in parallel.
• Integrated Memory Controller- which is DDR3 Triple Channel, this will allow for up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth and offer lower latency.
• QuickPath Interconnect- increases bandwidth and lowers latency.
• HD Boost- used to improve the range of multimedia, 128 bit SSE instruction with a throughput of one per clock cycle to enhance use of SSE4 optimized applications.
• Smart Cache- a highly efficient cache subsystem to increase performance in multi-threaded games.

Efficiency

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