Intel to offer $120 2.4GHz Prescott to OEMs

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1. March 11, 2004 4:13 PM
   Didou said:
   I believe Intel had allready done such a move when they first released the P4. They quickly released a 1.3GHZ Willamete to satisfy some big OEM partners. *cough*DELL*cough*AMD did the same thing not so long ago when they accepted to release a Socket-754 AthlonXP, which is basiclly an Athlon64 without the 64-bit extensions. Nice move...[img]http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/Smilies/n
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2. March 11, 2004 8:49 PM
   ---agissi--- said:
   Thats a good deal if you ask me.... I think :p its the cache that makes up :)
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3. March 12, 2004 2:11 AM
   Didou said:
   It only makes sense price wise beacause Prescott is cheaper to produce ( thx to the 0.09 process ) but performance wise, it is way below the Northwood.It's only at 3.4ghz & up that it starts to leave the Northwood behind.
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4. March 14, 2004 8:07 AM
   Mictlantecuhtli said:
   Or after developers start to use SSE3 extensively :p
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5. March 14, 2004 8:40 AM
   Didou said:
   I thought SSE3 was only a few instructions ( around 7 ) that were missing from SSE2 ?
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6. March 15, 2004 5:05 AM
   Didou said:
   It would seem this speed grade is to get rid of all the chips that did not pass the reliability tests at 2.8ghz & up.Seems Intel is having loads of problems with this 0.09 process.Have a read -> [url=http://www.iamnotageek.com/articles.php?aid=8&page=1]Pr
   scott Info @ Iamnotageek.com[/url]
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7. March 15, 2004 5:11 AM
   Didou said:
   Is it any wonder why Intel is now thinking of using model numbers instead of speed parts. The new naming scheme will be used for the Pentium-M at first but should be moved onto all the processors sometime this summer.[url=http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5172938.html?tag
   nefd_top]Intel chips take a new number[/url]
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8. March 15, 2004 9:15 AM
   Mictlantecuhtli said:
   I'll just rate / name the CPUs as "fast enough" :giddy:
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