Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 Review

In a multithreaded environment, the CPU demonstrated some excellent performance, besting the 3.73 Extreme Edition which has a 266FSB and over 500MHz clock speed advantage. Image and video editing are really the 840’s forté as we’ve seen results that are truly amazing. We didn’t publish the results, but DVD Shrink was remarkably quicker with the Extreme Edition 840, taking half the time the 3.73 XE did to shrink Revolutions, and this was during our multitasking tests.

If you want Dual Core and it has to be Intel, check out thisreview. For a $1,000 CPU, I’d rather go with an X2, especially since the 840 EE runs very hot.