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Old November 10th 03, 10:18 PM
chrisv
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:42:48 -0600, lyon_wonder
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Intel Updates Plans Again: Adds Pentium 4 Extreme Edition at 3.40GHz
and Pentium 4 at 3.40GHz into the Roadmap
Prescott and Nortwood to be Priced Equally in Q1 2004


(snip)

At the same time – presumably in Q1 2004 – Intel is projected to also
roll-out its Pentium 4 processor with SSE3 technology (Prescott)
processor at 2.80GHz with 1MB of L2, 533MHz Quad Pumped Bus and no HT
technology indicated.


Weird. So they're having problems making Prescott run with "800 MHz"
FSB? That's the rumor, anyways. That would explain the "equal
pricing" rumor, as the slower "533 MHz" FSB would hamper performance
compared to Northwood...

Prescott stepping back to "533 MHz" FSB would be quite lame. I'd take
the Northwood if they cost the same and perform about the same - the
faster FSB should give more consistent performance.

Anyway, won't matter to me, as I took advantage of the recent Intel
price drop and built me a 3.0 GHz monster. Cool!