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Article: Chillblast Fusion Hardcore Crossfire.(Product/service evaluation)
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- August 17, 2006
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Byline: Marc Delehanty
Chillblast Fusion Hardcore Crossfire
Overclocking makes this PC the fastest we've ever seen
The launch of Intel's Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors herald a new dawn for computer gaming enthusiasts.
Both are fabricated using a 65nm manufacturing process, which Intel initially used to construct high-end Pentium D chips.
They are well equipped with 4MB of Level 2 cache and an effective front-side bus speed of 1,066MHz (actually 266MHz, but data is transferred four times per clock cycle).
Such a large unified cache and speedy channel to access Ram, among the other architectural improvements, ...