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| Thread ID: 37835 | 2003-09-19 07:12:00 | 2mb L3 Cache P4 to be released | Lohsing (219) | Press F1 |
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| 176435 | 2003-09-19 07:12:00 | Extreme Edition P4 (www.pcworld.com) to be released shortly. "The CPU will include a 2MB Level 3 cache, which should help boost its performance in demanding applications such as graphics-heavy games. Today's Pentium 4 processors include a 512KB L2 cache, but no L3 cache (in fact, none of Intel's desktop processors include an L3 cache). At launch the processor will run at 3.2 GHz, the same speed as Intel's current top-end Pentium 4." Now that's something to envy... ;) Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 176436 | 2003-09-19 08:13:00 | Interesting to see the note about the Prescott at the end of that article. I received an email day-before-yesterday telling about the launch of Prescott early next year. There's also been a hint that the price of 2.6G and above P4s will drop on October 26 Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 176437 | 2003-09-19 09:00:00 | sounds like what AMD did to the k6-2 to make the k6-3. the question is..how much better will the cpu be? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 176438 | 2003-09-19 09:27:00 | My question would be.. How expensive will it be? And...why would i need one? My rig is a xp2200,512mb ddr,g4ti4200,...damn thing flies,oodles of grunt,takes every game and/or task i throw at it in its stride,and i cant see myself upgrading any of it in the next 2 years(well,i might drop a xp3200 in her in a years time).... |
metla (154) | ||
| 176439 | 2003-09-19 11:53:00 | If you read up on the new Xeon chips at Tom's hardware, the extra 1mb of L3 cache in the Xeon chip provides only very minimal performance for the extra $1000 you would pay for it. So in that light, I doubt that 2Mb of cache will do much for the P4. Good for show n tell though ;) | kiki (762) | ||
| 176440 | 2003-09-19 13:00:00 | they're just jealous of AMD's 64 bit processor coming out very soon (hopefully)... remember, mhz is cheap, cache is expensive... - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 176441 | 2003-09-20 02:30:00 | > they're just jealous of AMD's 64 bit processor coming > out very soon (hopefully)... Why hopefully? You going to buy one? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 176442 | 2003-09-20 03:15:00 | 2 Xeon's way outperform 2 Opterons. | kiki (762) | ||
| 176443 | 2003-09-20 04:35:00 | Yes, but Intel needs to learn that if they lower their prices to match those of AMD, they'd sell far more processors. | agent (30) | ||
| 176444 | 2003-09-20 04:51:00 | > 2 Xeon's way outperform 2 Opterons. Do you have any benchmarks I could look at? Also, it's worth noting that the Xeon is a 32bit processor while the Opteron is a 32/64bit processor (iirc, anyway). :) |
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