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Intel Speedbinning chipsets now?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1046783261

All the performance enhancements are achieve internal to the Intel 875P chipset.

For what seems like forever manufacturers have speedbinned processors, but not chipsets. Why? It looks to me as though Intel now sees that some of their chipsets can rise to the next level of performance though not 100%. While Intel is not specific about the exact nature of the "internal enhancements" I have long expected to see speed binning brought to the chipset world. This may be the first example. If I am correct, this is perfectly valid and long overdue. Whatever it is, it looks like the new chipsets bring new levels of performance equal to a processor speed bin.

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