Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:26 pm
Thanks Esq....
You mean the Prescott P4? Well, that's the rumor... 64 bit extensions but Intel won't say for sure. It DOES have a longer pipeline though. 31 stages. And it is built on 90nm wafers with bigger L1 and L2 caches some new graphical and numeric support in SSE3 instructions.... but no programs currently make use of them... obviously.
Besides, the much ballyhooed 64bit port of Windows XP hasn't happened and MS won't say when it is coming out... which is what the Athlon 64s & FX-51s really need to be able to blow the Pentiums away. Until then, the Pentium 4 Extremely Expensives (
) rule the performance field.
So yeah, I know it will be a while but in like fashion, it will be a while before XP is replaced then. Although WXP-SP2 is now out to fix a lot of the things that have been going wrong with XP of late, security-wise and stability-wise ( ).
I will bide my time.
You mean the Prescott P4? Well, that's the rumor... 64 bit extensions but Intel won't say for sure. It DOES have a longer pipeline though. 31 stages. And it is built on 90nm wafers with bigger L1 and L2 caches some new graphical and numeric support in SSE3 instructions.... but no programs currently make use of them... obviously.
Besides, the much ballyhooed 64bit port of Windows XP hasn't happened and MS won't say when it is coming out... which is what the Athlon 64s & FX-51s really need to be able to blow the Pentiums away. Until then, the Pentium 4 Extremely Expensives (
) rule the performance field.
So yeah, I know it will be a while but in like fashion, it will be a while before XP is replaced then. Although WXP-SP2 is now out to fix a lot of the things that have been going wrong with XP of late, security-wise and stability-wise (
).
I will bide my time.