After close to six years of the original Pentium 4 “Willamette” core’s disappointing unveiling we’ve finally reached the end of the road of Intel’s Netburst architecture with Presler. Soon Netburst will be nothing but a forgotten memory when Conroe/Merom hit the streets, however Intel has given Netburst one last hurrah by shrinking the die from 90nm to 65nm—a first for desktop processors. Intel also has added a few other enhancements to the package but will this be enough to give Intel the performance crown once again?—Enter the Extreme Edition 955.



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