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"The new king processor for desktops!" on by the_reviewer
Pros: Beats AMD athlon 64 x2, and uses less wattage than pentium extreme edition and pentium d.
Cons: More expensive than Intel dual-core XEON 5160 (65 nm Intel Core Microarchitecture) which is faster than x6800.
Summary: I bought a dell precision with this processor. It performs excellent. I'd compare this processor to amd athlon 64 x2 and I'm amazed by the results. There was no doubt that it can outperform amd. I compared this also to Dual-core xeon 5160 (65nm intel core microarchitecture). Xeon is the winner. I've heard that xeon defeated the opteron. Xeon has 1333mhz front side bus, but the x6800 has 1066 fsb. The prize of x6800 is around $1400 ,and the Xeon is $1000. I hate the prize of x6800. I want the prize to be around $800. That's why I rated this 9/10.
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hi..<br>m planning to get a new comp. my usage will be mostly graphics applications like max, maya and gaming... which processor and graphics card to get? i dont want to spend more. i can wait for a few more weeks.<br>thank you in advance.
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In theory, the Xeon 5160 should be faster at 3.0GHz - but take a look at the Maya benchmarks for Dell Precision 390 and 690 at http://www.spec.org/gpc/Aug1_06/apc.data/apc_maya65_summary.html (higher score = higher speed) <br><br>I'm not a gamer, and I've been away from the latest developments in processors for a while, but I thought this was interesting. <br><br>Any idea why the Extreme outperforms the Xeon?
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