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Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Pro Reviews

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mbreview‘s review Edit Like Unlike

These Extreme Edition 840’s come with a substantial cost, as one would expect for an Extreme Edition processor. The only problem is, all they have over the Pentium D’s are Hyper-Threading. Although this will indeed add some benefit to the performance of the processor, I doubt it’s enough to convince an end user to go with an 840 over a Pentium D. Normally we’d see the Extreme Edition with more cache, or perhaps a faster FSB, but this time, we see none of this. This makes the 840 a hard sell for most, to say the least.

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Sep 04, 2009

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www.pcper.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

It would seem from my testing that heavily multitasking users would indeed see a big benefit from the dual core Pentium XE 840 processor. That may not be the case, however, for light or non multitasking users. It would seem that the new XE 840 processor doesn't really stand a chance against the other processors in the field.

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Apr 20, 2005

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HEXUS‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The 3.2GHz Pentium XE 840 is offered as an alternative to current single-core Extreme Edition CPUs. It may not quite have the pure gaming performance punch as, say, the 3.73GHz XE, but it's a better proposition when considered over a wide variety of applications. It's this performance that will dictate just how well Intel has succeeded in its dual-core approach.

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Apr 04, 2005

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xbitlabs‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Pentium Extreme Edition 840 still doesn’t make the desired impression after we have once seen what AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is capable of. Moreover, Pentium Extreme Edition 840 has a few other issues. This CPU has dramatic power consumption which sets additional requirements to the voltage regulators designed for the mainboards supporting it as well as to the system PSUs. As a result, Pentium Extreme Edition 840 requires special cooling solutions. So, Pentium Extreme Edition 840 has pretty vague chances to become a popular being an expensive solution for high-performance PCs.

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May 17, 2005

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www.trustedreviews.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Probably the least surprising result from our tests is that Pentium Extreme Edition 840 behaves very much like our dual Xeons. All that said, even though the average PC user is unlikely to be running many multi-threaded applications, if they are running several applications concurrently, a dual-core chip should make a big difference.

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Apr 04, 2005

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