Intel demonstrates 650 MHz Pentium II

Gaming industry heavyweights gather each year at the Computer Games Developers' Conference (CGDC) and this year's outing, held this past week in Long Beach, California, offered a few surprises. Most notable among themwas Intel Corporation, which demonstrated an early version of a 650 MHzPentium II, which was cooled by an external refrigerant due to its one-offstatus. Intel was showing the chip off to prove that the Pentium II linestill has a lot of headroom left for improvement and the company said thisweek that even faster versions would be available.

Appropriately, Intel demoed a couple of leading-edge OpenGL games on theCPU, including "T-Rex" and "Shot". Both games were displayed using a 3DFXVoodoo2 accelerator, currently the faster consumer-grade 3D accelerator available