Conroe: 1333 MHz FSB and 65 watts power consumption

Conroe core processors with a bandwidth of 65 nanometers have a good chance of restoring the manufacturer’s reputation.

It’s hard to argue that the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer hasn’t switched to the 90-nanometer bandwidth the way it wanted it to. The heat production of the Prescott — and, accordingly, the dual-core version, the Smithfield — core central units escaped into the skies while not being able to raise their clock at nearly the pace they wanted. Now, however, another change in manufacturing technology is taking place and they can start again with a clean slate, which seems to be being used.

The 65-nanometer Conroe core processors will produce up to 65 watts, which is half the size of today’s high-end Intel-based solutions. This in itself is of great importance, as heating and cooling noise is one of the most important problems when choosing a computer. Another positive is that, as you might have guessed, on the one hand, Conroe will use a 1066 MHz system bus by default, and on the other hand, the QPB of the Extreme Edition will run at 1333 MHz.

Of the Conroe core solutions, we are the first to come across four types: E6700, E6600, E6400 and E6300, which will operate at 2,67, 2,40, 2,13 and 1,83 GHz, respectively. The first two of them contain 4 MB of combined second-level cache, while the latter two must accommodate 2 MB. What has been said so far is quite encouraging, but this is only exacerbated by pre-leaked prices: they will be asking for US $ 529, US $ 315, US $ 240 and US $ 210 respectively. According to the latest roadmap, an additional 2006 GHz, 2,93 MB L4 cache will expand in the fourth quarter of XNUMX.

So it’s clear that Intel really takes the net withdrawal of Netburst-based solutions very seriously, so the new, much more efficient microarchitecture gets full support.

The version of the Conroe Extreme Edition really sounds pretty extreme: a 3,33 GHz clock, a 1333 MHz system bus, 4 MB of L95 cache, it’s true, so we already pay for the value with XNUMX W of heat generation. You can read more about other features of the new generation Intel processors in our previous news.