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P4 Northwood vs Prescott GUIDE, P4 "C" vs P4 "E"
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throx
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Apr 1 2004, 12:00 PM
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| QUOTE (ikanayam @ Apr 1 2004, 10:05 AM) | | So my take on the situation at the moment is get a Nortwood and stay away from the Prescott until Intel fixes the heat issue with the Prescotts, because the Prescotts feature a much higher heat output and lower performance than the Northwood. |
Why not just go for AMD. Single channel Athlon64 can easily match Northwood performance in 32-bit. Plus the potential performance gain when you switch to 64-bit.
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throx
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Apr 1 2004, 01:19 PM
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OK, I'm sorry for mentioning AMD here. It's not my intention to create another "Intel vs AMD" debate here.
Don't you think that Intel's designing strategy has gone wrong ? A newer chips run even slower than the older one. And they have problem to increase the core frequency due to the excessive heat.
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throx
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Apr 1 2004, 02:38 PM
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| QUOTE (HMMaster @ Apr 1 2004, 01:28 PM) | | is pentium4 2.4A a prescott??? |
2.4A is Northwood. Prescott has an 'E' notation.
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throx
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Apr 1 2004, 03:48 PM
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Did a quick search and found out that there is 2.4A Prescott. That's indeed confusing because there is a 2.4A Northwood as well.
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