Intel VS. AMD Power Supply
The final changes to mention on Intel's new board are the additional power requirements and a new power connector. These new Prescott processors can put out up to 115 watts of heat and that's a lot of power needed to drive such a processor. Below you can see our power supply of choice, the PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 Express. We feel that this power supply is the best you can buy and PC Power and Cooling even guarantees that this supply will “power a single or dual CPU system with up to twelve drives.” They even back this up by providing more connectors than we've ever seen on any other supply. There are 6 SATA power connectors, 8 standard Molex connectors, and 1 mini connector. The supply's label promises 510 watts of continuous power and 650 watts of peak power. Take a look at the label in the upper-left photo below for more details. In the upper-right photo below, you'll see the new power connectors for this new platform. The 24-pin connector is for the motherboard, while the 6-pin connector is to power the new line of NVIDIA GeForce 6 series cards. This is the same power supply that we've used in our dual Opteron and Xeon systems with just different connectors for this new board. It's rock solid and provides more than enough juice for any desktop computer.
Motherboard and Graphics Connectors PC Power Turbo-Cool 510 Express
Molex Connectors SATA Connectors
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Modern Power Supply From LinkDepot Supporting PCI- E & 20 - 24 pin Mother Boards
Intel's latest processors were analyzed in our Intel's Prescott, Intel's Extreme Edition, and AMD's Athlon 64 3400+ article. Nothing but the socket has changed since then with the processor, but they have released a few new processors and implemented a new processor model number much like AMD's rating. Intel maintains a full list of processor model numbers for easy decoding on their website if you'd like to see the specs. In this review we will be taking a look at Intel's Pentium 4 560 (3.6GHz Prescott with 1MB L2 cache) and two Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Editions (3.4GHz Northwood with 512KB L2 and 2MB L3 cache).
