Intel Releases Low-Power Quad-Core Processors @ X-Bit Labs

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on March 13th, 2007, 02:34 PM

Intel Xeon processors L5320 and the L5310 have four processing cores, 1.86GHz and 1.6GHz clock-speeds respectively, 8MB L2 cache in total and are compatible with LGA771 infrastructure that supports 1066MHz processor system bus. Thermal design power of the new chip is just 50W, which is significantly lower compared to the company’s previous quad-core offerings that had thermal design power of 80W or 120W.

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**Posted by IModIntel on March 14th, 2007, 02:38 AM**

I don't think that I need a quad-core. My single core 3gig P4 is doing me fine, at least for now. I will upgrade for a better CPU only when i'll need it.