Prescott?

[TeaLeaf]

Hexus have posted a really nice review of yesterday's newly launched Intel P4 Prescott and compared it to the Athlon 64 bit and Intell Northwood CPUs.  It's a really good read and not overly technical - it just tells you what you need to know

Bottom line is don't buy a 478 Prescott yet.  It sux.  Wait for the clock speeds to jump up  and for the move to Socket T (775 form-factor).  The Prescott is scaled to go up to circa 4.5Ghz, but at the moment it is expensive and about to be made redundant techology when it jumps ship to LGA775.  By comparison the Athlon 64 comes out real well though for a 'now' purchase.

Read the whole article here.

TL.

[Blunt]

F********* B******!

[DarkAngel]

 :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:

[Maddy]

That the Prescott would be weaker than the NW and A64 in those low frequencies was expected due to its pipe.. But a prescott running in 4Ghz+ could maybe change all that.

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by Maddy@Feb 6 2004, 03:47 PM
That the Prescott would be weaker than the NW and A64 in those low frequencies was expected due to its pipe.. But a prescott running in 4Ghz+ could maybe change all that.

By 'pipe' I assume you mean the Prescott's absurdly long 31 stage pre-fetch cache?  It has to go damn quick to overcome that little hurdle and catch up with a 65% shorter AMD pre-fetch routine.  

Intel's routine also needs to get more accurate which they are having trouble achieving.  It is currently getting the pre-fetch wrong just over 10% of the time and when you have a 31 stage routine that's a heck of a lot of flushing and recalling to do to clear the error  :blink:

4GHz?  Hmmm, not sure, but by the time 4.5Ghz Prescott rolls out in Q4 this year then they might have go there.  But then how much further will AMD have advanced by that time?  It'll be interesting to see!

TL.

[Maddy]

Originally posted by TeaLeaf+Feb 6 2004, 05:19 PM-->

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by Maddy@Feb 6 2004, 05:54 PM
Yep, it will be some extremely interesting months ahead of us .. Intel's roadmap is a joke according to me, but if is is possible for overclockers like me to turn it up to around 4Ghz it would atleast change the situation a bit. But it seems like the prescott are having heatproblems, I have heard something like 70 celsius in load with retail cooling!?

It doesn't look very bright for Intel right now..

You heard right on the heat front.  The prescott is pumping out about 108W  :blink:  
Everyone I know of has heat trouble, so unless you have some serious cooling kit then your biggest problem will be cooling the darn thing.  Whack a compression pump on it (prometia etc) and you *may* be in business, but no guarantees.

Either way, I'd steer clear of Intel for the next few months.  (except Ron who is getting a Northwood and there ok )

TL.

[Doorman]

Originally posted by TeaLeaf@Feb 6 2004, 08:00 PM

Either way, I'd steer clear of Intel for the next few months.  (except Ron who is getting a Northwood and there ok )

TL.

Phew!

[Anonymous]

Except of course for the one Ron is getting which will have bent pins and a very faint hairlince crack across the top  :devil:

[Maddy]

I wonder why in h*ll Intel didn't release the Prescott in around 3.4 - 3.6Ghz instead of 2.8 - 3.2. With the higher freq it would certainly outperfrom a NW and they wouldnt be stuck with the old "Pentium 4 vs Pentrium 3" problem. :eyebrow:

[Doorman]

Originally posted by BlueBall@Feb 6 2004, 10:07 PM
Except of course for the one Ron is getting which will have bent pins and a very faint hairlince crack across the top  :devil:

You evil man. I hope your sporran catches fire!

[sheepy]

so why they name a processor afta a bloody politician?

[Anonymous]

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Oh sheepster how we have missed thee