Besides having graphics integrated, it is still not a match for Nvidia and AMD/ATI. However it is good for playing high definition video content from Blu-Ray and HD, and basic gaming. Regarding the power consumption, its reasonable, though we still have to wait for the low power version of the chip.

Technology advances in parallel form. What I mean is, the prospect of Cloud Computing could give end users a lot of computing power,American oil painting, but the innate desktop computing is surely not going to stay behind. Both the desktop computing and cloud computing are going to increase their potential. Intel is the power house behind modern desktop and laptop with few competitors like  AMD,china oil painting, and they will continue to be so.

These chips, known as Clarkdale for desktops and Arrandale for notebooks (and often to be sold under the Core i3 and i5 names), have two big distinctions: they are the first 32-nm CPUs in production, and the first major PC chips to be delivered with the graphics integrated within the chip package itself – in this case,Angel oil painting, with a 32-nm CPU die and a 45nm graphics die.

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Since most of the current games are optimized for multi-core systems the Clarkdale processors are beat by CPUs with four cores although they run at noticeably higher frequencies. Even on windows 7 Hyper-Threading can’t deliver a noticeable advantage in games and furthermore the L3 cache has been halved. Thus in most games the i5-660 running at 3.33 GHz is beat by an i5-750 (Lynnfield) which is running at only 2.66 GHz – the gap between the processors is quite small though. The Clarkdale also looses against AMD’s top CPUs X4 965 and X4 975. Only if overclocked to 3.8 to 4.0 GHz the new Core i5 processor reaches the level of a Core i5-750 or even the performance of a Core i7-920 in Far Cry 2.

News reports that Intel will be announcing its first 32 nm “Westmere” processors. These processor have dual cores, but with hyper threading they can run 4 threads simultaneously. In case of turbo boost, the system can shutdown one core and run the others in faster speed.

Intel Clarkdale reviewed: CPU test Since most gamers have a dedicated graphics card we ran most tests without the on-chip graphics unit. Thus the new dual-core Westmere with 4 MiByte L3 cache (with Hyper-Threading) competes with the quad-core Lynnfield with eight MiByte L3 cache (without Hyper-Threading), its predecessors from the Core 2 series as well as the products from AMD. The Clarkdale tests were run with Windows 7 because this operating system is able to work correctly with Hyper-threading cores – please note that the comparative results were made on Windows Vista SP2.

Here is the expert review about the chip from pchardware:

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