Where's the P4 EE?

When is the new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition going to be available? Will it be OEM, or are retail versions going to be sold?


Thanks.

From what I've read 1-2 months. Just in time for the holidays.

Any ideas on pricing for the EE's or speeds they plan to go down to?

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The Prescott will be out in December? I thought it was scheduled for Q1 2004? If it really does hit market before Christmas I guess I'll buy it instead. Is it Socket 478?

Do you want too buy one before then?

prescott will be released by december 3rd; however, widespread availability is not expected until Q1 2004. It is still socket 478, but just for a little while. This socket will soon be replaced by a new one...

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I think buying a Prescott as soon as it's released, sometime in December or January, is the worse decision you can ever make. Socket 478 won't be here for very long, so you will end up with a system that can't be upgraded, not to mention how much you will have to pay to get a Prescott. Also the P4EE doesn't worth it either. I can't even imagine spending $700+ for a processor! I usually pay that money for a CPU, mobo, and memory .. all together!

I have a suggestion though but I don't know if it is too extreme Go buy a system with a Barton 2500+ which you can overclock to 3200+. This will cost you very very little. Then sometime in summer next year, you can either choose Athlon 64 FX (939 pin) or Prescott, when both chips are mature enough and all their problems are solved out (e.g. heat), plus prices will come down. Or the current A64 3200+ seems like a very nice choice.

Your suggestion is a good one, but there's one thing you must understand - I almost never upgrade. I don't know why, but aside from some extra ram, a necessary new hardrive, and a CD burner the computer I'm typing on right now is the same one I bought 6 years ago.

In my mindset right now (which is bound to change) I'll buy a good non-EE P4 soon, and hopefully catching some price cuts. Then I'll skip the Prescott and maybe, just maybe upgrade when second generation Tejas hits market. I don't want to get a processor that's too old now because if I don't upgrade (which is probable) this computer will age even worse than my 300 MHz POS, which was top of the line at the time.

The first Prescotts will be Socket 478 and may go as high as 4GHz (I'm seeing sites report 2.8-3.8GHz models but I think it's all speculation). Buying one would actually be an excellent decision, but not at the time of release. Instead it would be a better decision financially to get a Prescott S478 after the newer ones are released and the price on the old models drops.

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I've never overclocked before, and to tell you the truth I'm a bit wary of doing it. This is the first PC I'm building on my own, let me walk before I run!

As of right now I'm probably going with this rig:

Intel Pentium 4 processor @ 3 GHz
D865 PERL
Radeon 9800 XT
Seagate Barracuda 7200 160GB
2 x Corsair CM64SD512-3200

I can get that plus the other things I'll need for a hair over 1500, is that a fair price?

The P4EE came out of left field. It does not make since why their bring it out around the same time as Scotty.

Tejas is gonna be tight 32bit ALU's a addition FPU advant to better power management, scalbility transition to 0.65u, better clock skew, larger caches.

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You sure (about the $170 P4)? Then that's when I'm buying.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by RiZ on 10/05/03 09:56 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

That's what I read. 2 months from Sept. Takes us till Nov. Maybe Intel's going to release both at the same time.

Oh ya tight forgot about that.

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i know your a hardcore intel storm trooper

thats ok with me long as u dont deny it

but even you know that INTEL aint releasing the P4EE and PRESSHOT at the same time

P4EE is a stop gap because there wont be any PRESSIES for some time... there may be a few but only level one OEMS will have them... none in the channel

If intel can make 10,000 scottie pippens before the spring. i will be impressed

its kinda like AMD making a DURON with 512k of cache ...makes no sense

Good call!

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

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