Re: Woodcrest 3.0, 2.66, 2.33, 2.0, 1.86, 1.6.
Do these bins strike anyone as very odd? When do you ever see a product intro where the lowest bin is about 1/2 the frequency of the highest bin? I have two guesses here. Either 3.0 is a stretch or 1.6 is an ultra low voltage/low power part.
Nothing is odd here. It is like I've been saying all along. Woodcrest comes with a 1333MT/s FSB, which has a base frequency of 333MHz. With standard integer multipliers, they can only launch products that align with those frequencies:
3.0GHz = 333 * 9
2.66GHz = 333 * 8
2.33GHz = 333 * 7
2.0GHz = 333 * 6
I'm guessing for the other two, Intel dropped down to a 1067MT/s FSB, so:
1.86GHz = 266 * 7
1.6GHz = 266 * 6
Re: The Conroe article next to this one showed a top bin of 2.66.
This also makes sense, since Intel has said that Conroe will be 65W, while Woodcrest will be 80W. So the extra 15W power envelope enables a higher bin, much like the Opteron SE. You should also expect a Conroe Extreme Edition at 80W and 3.0GHz for the desktop, if this is true.
