Poll on Prescott

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<font color=red><b>M</b></font color=red>ephistopheles

Nice results, Good job Intel!

AMD crowd loves to bump those Prescott threads.

No need to reply to those threads as the garbage contained inside is just bait you. they get ugly when provoked like a swarm of hornets.

Spitefire, have you checked out the new Prescott? Its got new SSE3 instructions and the smaller die will increase yeild per wafer to reduce costs for consumers while retaining performance of todays processor selection without hurting value of of chips in stock and on shelves. It would have been dumb of Intel to introduce a new processor and ruin the value of the existing line. Athlons competing against Celerons for sales, thats gotta hurt. Tough choice, but I would get the Celeron.

I bet BB will be pumped and ready after he hears this good news.


<b>"You haven't proven anything that once 64-bit support comes out, it will perform even better." -EDEN</b>

>Athlons competing against Celerons for sales, thats gotta
>hurt.

Not really. If I'm not sorely mistaken, Athlon XP is some 30% smaller and therefore cheaper to produce than Celeron. The only thing hurting is the sucker that gets the Celeron. I hope you'll enjoy yours, be sure to post your 3DMarks.

Besides, give it a few months and P4 will be competing against Duron only.

>I bet BB will be pumped and ready after he hears this good
>news.

What news ? I've known this for ages..

= The views stated herein are my personal views, and not necessarily the views of my wife. =

So you are still doing 3Dmark hein i let that away long time ago.You know we dont make as much money as you.

Can you confirme anandtech scaling chart.

I dont like french test

You'd get a Celeron.. so I was expecting your Celeron scores to compare to AXP scores. Sure hope you got a good supply of liquid nitrogen if you want to come close.

= The views stated herein are my personal views, and not necessarily the views of my wife. =

So the update shows that the opinions have hardly changed at all?

Personally I think that Prescott is okayish at best. Had Intel even just taken Northwood and given it the larger cache and SSE3 then it would have been a much better immediate step forward. I sure hope that Prescott has a lot of hidden potential that we just are not seeing at the moment.


"Sad is the elephant upon the ice who went to put on his wooly coat only to realize that he left it in his other trunk." - DeEvolution

IMHO its okay.. if they can fix heat issues.. and support 64 bits in future. if not, it has no future only good to heat the room.

Relax on the insults, you dont want any of this.

I agree with the THG results skewed sig, my 2.8E outscoring the 3.4 EE @ stock speed makes me wonder.

<b>"You haven't proven anything that once 64-bit support comes out, it will perform even better." -EDEN</b>

Prescott is good for Intel's business, but it is mediocre for us enthusiasts. I may not buy a Prescott, but for each of me there are thousands (millions?) of other people who will. That is good business. Such is life.

At the least we should be happy that Prescott is not forcing all owners into DRM.


"Sad is the elephant upon the ice who went to put on his wooly coat only to realize that he left it in his other trunk." - DeEvolution

Things changed a bit on the statistics. Here's a quick update.

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55% - think Prescott has good or great potential.
45% - think prescott has little or no potential.
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18% - think Prescott is a lousy processor.
52% - think Prescott is an OK processor.
17% - think Prescott is a great processor.
13% - think it's stupidity materialized.
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The last votes changed the overall result a bit. Right now, it's apparent that more people thought prescott is at least OK (2/3 of people think it's OK or great) but less people think it has a future (this went down from 65 to 55%).

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Mephistopheles on 02/05/04 00:21 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

being a underling to OPPAINTER and [-peep-] AMD rigs really gets u upset doesnt iy

Mr. Fugger , i am running a intel rig , and this is the second time in this post that you have said your gonna open a can of whoop arse on someone . Don't know why but it just set me off sooooo ifin you wanna play mocho man just pm me and we will get togeather and both open a can. Gesssshh sounds like fun , we will see which one remains standing , heck i love ta play that game . Then you could learn respect for others . ( don't tell me they was smart arse cause i know they where , but they did not threatin to whip ya .
----------On topic now , i just seen the 2.8 Prescott and the price was'nt to bad . Got a chance to get a SL6Z5 2.8 ( higher dollars then 2.8 Prescott ) , think i will go for that and wait awhile on Prescott . The OC potentiall don't look to bad on the Prescott though . Gotta 2.6 now that don't wanna clock up though , that's why i am wanting the SL6Z5 stepping core . Got a ton of money in it already and might as well finish it off ( money that is ). After this i may go back to AMD .

The man of steel said that