Quick and Dirty Penryn Benchmarks

An anonymous reader writes "So Intel has their quad-core Penryn processors all set and ready to launch in November. There are benchmarks for the dual-core Wolfdale all over the place, but this seems to be the first article to put the quad-core Yorkfield to the test. It looks like the Yorkfield is only about 7-8% faster than the Kentsfield with similar clock speeds and front-side bus."

Worcestershire?

[Dachannien]

Penryn? Wolfdale? Yorkfield? Kentsfield? What are they doing here, making processors, or naming streets in a new upscale subdivision?

Re:If I install Linux on it

[Anpheus]

Does Linux even boot on Blue Gene, or does it hang while trying to draw over one hundred thousand penguins?

*NEVER* underestimate the viruses

[DrYak]

NEVER underestimate the huge number of virus / trojan / spyware and pop-up generating crapware that are running in parallel on average joe's computer.

Just think about the number of users who come into stores to buy "faster computers because the old one is getting too slow" when the old computer is crawling under an impressive amount of crapware.
They are the perfect target for those new multi-core processors :
- 1 core for running the OS, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word.
- All other core for running SPAM-spitting zombies.

Now, if you add Vista in the equation...

Re:*NEVER* underestimate the viruses

[Bill Dog]

Also never underestimate the huge number of anti- virus / trojan / spyware and pop-up crapware that are running in parallel on average joe's computer. My folks still use AOL. ("Security Edition".) Their computer is basically locked up whenever one of the several types of scans or automatic check for updates auto-launches. They need 3 cores for all those kinds of horribly-written craplets, and 1 to play Minesweeper.