"Derek Baker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Yousuf Khan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000315
> >
> > http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040201/index.html
> >
> > http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1956
>
> I posted these and more, more than 11 hours before you, but my ISP is
> having trouble with its newgroup feed, so noone else can see them.
> Bastards! 
>
> This posted via Google Groups.
I'm sorry, but it's not like as if my ISP is the model of high quality and
efficiency either. :-)
Anandtech seems to think that the Prescott should only be purchased if
you're going to try to overclock to 4Ghz, otherwise go for Northwood. This
despite the fact that the Prescott uses up far more power than the Northwood
at the same frequency.
Ace's hardware seems to think that at 125 million transistors, Prescott is
hiding some circuitry inside it, which Intel hasn't told us about yet. They
come to this conclusion by adding up the extra circuitry required by the
512K larger L2 cache, and the 8K larger L1 instruction cache, and estimate
that altogether this should take Prescott only up 80 million transistors
from the Northwood's 52 million. So there's still 45 million transistors
unaccounted for inside Prescott.
Tom's just seems annoyed by Prescott for some reason. :-)
Yousuf Khan