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To: Petz who wrote (196763)	5/15/2006 2:58:00 AM
From: eracer	Read Replies (3) of 275872

And cutting the FSB to 667 MHz to reduce power consumption will have an effect on IPC relative to desktop Core 2, so I wouldn't count on any IPC advantage over Turion X2 at all. There are few benchmarks which are heavily dependent on memory bandwidth. Merom is not going to suffer much in most benchmarks used in hardware reviews with the 667MHz FSB. Core Duo already performs well with the same 667MHz FSB. Turion X2 will likely lose a large majority of benchmarks to an equally clocked Merom. I expect that only the lowest speed grade or two (1.83 and 2 GHz), of the parts listed in your 3-month-old Dailytech article, will be available at launch, and Intel has made no promise that the "design power" will stay at 31 watts. The TDP for Merom is 35W. ... to continue. Since the fastest Core Duo is only 2.16 GHz, all bets are off as the the TDP of higher-clocked Merom's. And the "T" rating to 55w, gives Merom a lot of wiggle room. The fastest Core Duo should be 2.33GHz by the time Merom launches. Intel should be able to at least launch Merom at 2.16GHz.

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