Hardcore Quad-Core

As you can hopefully see, I purchased a new Quad-Core CPU today and the installation went smoothly. Sure, 2.4GHz isn’t exactly fast, but four of them are.

The CPU features dual 128KB L1 caches and dual 4MB L2 caches and twice as many cores as its predecessor. Additionally, it runs on a shiny-new 65nm process. By “Now aging”, of course, I mean 45nm chips will be in the market soon. Those of you in the know will know that the fabrication process refers to how far apart the on-die circuit pathways are. For example, my old Athalon XP 3200+ CPU runs a .13 micron process (130 nanometers). Smaller processes mean less heat and more circuit traces that can be crammed into the same space.

Newegg has 940 reviews of the chip on their official Quad Core Q6600 Kentsfield product page, and 89% of them (837 people) rated it 5/5. But I didn’t buy it at Newegg.

Some of you may have dugg that CompUSA is going out of business; thus, everything in the store is 10-50% off. I got mine for $250, had it immediately, and didn’t have to pay shipping or worry about UPS’s infamous foot holes.

That’s right, folks, you heard it here first, even before Slashdot: CompUSA is going out of business and has slashed its prices.