Posted on Tuesday, May 19 2009 @ 1:00 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
wrote the slowest Intel Lynnfield processor will have a frequency of 2.66GHz, it has 8MB of cache but unlike the faster models it will have only have four instead of eight thread support.
It looks like Intel wants to deliberately slow this CPU down as it should be replacing 2.67GHz Clocked Core 2 Quad 9400. With eight threads we can bet that 2.66GHz Lynnfield makes Core i7 920 clocked at the same speed run for its money and Intel doesn’t want this.
The maximal single core clock speed of 2.66GHz quad core Lynnfield is 3.2GHz and this is achieved with Turbo boost mode.
