Full Intel processor power costs extra $50

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Intel is making its customers spend $50 (£32) in order to get the top performance from their processors.

The chip giant has released a ranged of upgrade cards for this price to accompany PCs running Pentium 5691 processors. After purchase, the cards can be enabled via an application on Intel’s website and the full power of the chip can be unleashed.

“The CPU Performance upgrade… benefits compute-intensive applications that are designed to take advantage of multiple computing threads and larger CPU cache sizes,” claimed Intel on its website.

Tasks that need this boost includ multitasking, rendering media and digital content creation, according to the company.

It has yet to be confirmed whether these upgrade cards will become available for other processors or whether they will begin to ship on our side of the Atlantic, but their popularity in the US is sure to be an indicator.

Last week Intel held its annual conference – the Intel Developer Forum – in San Francisco. IT PRO was there so check out our round-up of all the news from the show.

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