Intel - P4 big price drop

[Carpetbagger]

EE is expensive to make (yields are low) and nobody is buying them.
Ed

No one is buying them? But.. Toms Hardware gave it such glowing
praise...

 

[GMAN]

Yeah check out tomshardware new write up on the new s939 boards.
Dual ddr400 blows any Intel chip, or should I say girl guide biscuit away.

Also you get buffer protection in xp plus native 64bit mode if you like
playing with linux etc.

Oh perhaps you are a feeble microsoft ME user and just want to do what your
12yr old girlfriend says and buy Intel like her fag dad.

Or there are wankers like you who have 12 year old girlfriends just so you can
be closer to her dad!!!!!

Ok, so maybe a little hardcore, but if you have got this far then you can
read toms new review and make your own mind up :]

Rich

On 8/22/04 Intel announced price drops of their desktop P4 processors
averaging ~ 25 %, both Prescott and Northwood.

I notice that this price-drop has not yet rolled through to some
on-line retailers yet, such as www.newegg.com............. If you are
contemplating an Intel processor-purchase, you may want to
keep your money in your pocket for a couple more weeks.

The prices of all versions of the P4 Extreme-edition did NOT
move.

John Lewis

 

[Pluvious]

Prescott ? Don't !!! Unless you want a furnace in your PC
and limited overclock without water-cooling.

See http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/default.asp

for the necessary spec-comparisons.

Maybe Intel will have solved their 90nm leakage problems
early next year.

See www.anandtech.com and www.tomshardware.com
re Prescott vs Northwood.

I shall be buying a 3.2C/800 and overclocking probably
to not more than 3.4-3.5GHz. Will still run lots cooler
than a 3.4 Prescott. ( Currently, I have a 3.06/533
o/c'd to 3.35 GHz that I will be passing on to another
machine )

John Lewis

Hmm.. you're right, the Prescott is not the one I want. I was blinded
by the 1 meg cache that is very appealing, but if it comes with extra
heat issues, I'll pass. I have a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo. Guess I'll
max it out with the Northwood C instead. Thanks for the heads up.

Pluvious

ps.. I should try to o/c this 2.6c up to 3.0 or so and see if I can
live with it. I tried once.. but since I didn't mess with the voltages
and ram timing it wasn't to stable. I certainly got the right ram
for it.. XMS PC3200C2PT by Corsair.