The dual core battle between AMD and Intel has begun, with Intel throwing the first punch by releasing the Pentium Extreme Edition 840. The dual cores run at 3.2Ghz and each have 1MB of L2 cache to work with. HEXUS.net has a review of the new CPU along with the new 955X chipset that supports it. In multithreaded benchmarks the dual core processor simply blows other systems out of the water, but at this moment in time how many real world applications will make full use of this CPU?

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