LegitReview takes a look at the new Intel Pentium Extreme Edition Processor 955 (formerly known as Presler) CPU which will be formerly launched on Jan. 16th, 2006 for $999 – ouch.. that’s a bit steep for my pocket books but that’s why this is known as the Extreme Edition processor – it’s for the crazy nuts out there who need the absolute fastest. And is this thing fast? Well the new 955 is a dual core processor with some new features – including dual 2MB L2 caches – one for each core which means the die now has a total of 4MB of cache; a 266MHz quad pumped FSB; support for Intel’s new Virtualization Technology; and a new 65 nm process. LegitReview takes a look at how overclockable the CPU really is:

With an increase in the processor multiplier and some small voltage increases on the Intel 955 processor and the motherboard we could easily hit a stable 4.8GHz on our processor. That is a 1.3GHz overclock! How stable is it really? Stable enough to run Super Pi and a number of other benchmarks…

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