Intel® Pentium® 4 processor Extreme Edition 3.20 GHz

[ayoub_ibrahim]

WHEN, AT today's IDF opening, Louis Burns demonstrated a high-definition video stream running on a "mystery" desktop processor, everyone must hve thought it was the upcoming Prescott part. Wrong! It was the (also upcoming), previously unheard of, even at The Inq, Intel® Pentium® 4 processor Extreme Edition 3.20 GHz , with an extra 2 Megabytes. In Intel's own words, "this new processor will be targeted at high-end gamers and computing power users."

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11576

[Novdid]

Looks interesting.

[HFU]

I wonder how much could that cost?

HFU

[Jammrock]

close to a grand knowing Intel.

Jammrock

[Chrono_Wanderer]

LOL Intel's "answer to Sept 23"

but... increasing cache and try to get better performance... not the best approch eh?

[Marshmallowman]

hehe...after seeing the athlon 64's with 1Mb cache, intel could not resist

[Technoid]

Predictable
Wonder who will be able to afford it?

[SpiralDragon]

i just hope they make the p4 capable of DP .... the P4 s advance better than the xeons interms of technology... 800fsb vs 533.... and the chipsets too....

[GT98]

Originally posted by Jammrock
close to a grand knowing Intel.

Jammrock

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1870

Given the price of AMD's forthcoming Athlon 64 FX, we'd expect the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition to be priced accordingly. We are hearing that the processor will be priced around $740 in 1,000 unit quantities.

Damn I remember paying about $200 bucks for my Althon 2100+ back a year ago

[Jammrock]

Just read about the chip at ZDNet. The P4EE will sport 2 MB of Level 3 cache, ala the Xeon MP chips. They say the performance boost is significant.

For $700+ it better wipe my @$$ after I take a dump.

PS - Those are some crappy looking boxes that they demoed the P4EE on, from the Anandtech link above. They could have at least shelling out for a CoolerMaster or Lian Li case for the demo. Or had one of their bed buddies like Dell build them a PC with one of their decent looking XPS cases. If you are releasing an "extreme" CPU for "extreme" gamers, you better make the box look "extreme" damn it!!

Jammrock

[Rigel]

Intel made a Xeon 3.06 with an additional 1MB of L3 cache to top the low-end part of the Xeon line. Tom's Hardware tested it and found out it did not increase the preformance that much, in some programs not at all.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030811/dual_xeon-18.html

In addition it was beaten by the Opteron...

[Marshmallowman]

I would think it really is based on xeon pressed into service for desktops.

Also there will be quite a few thing that will use the extra cache, particulary in workstations.

But I would think with HT and a fat cache this would be one smooth CPU, eg very few stall's you would get a very consistant frame rates out of it. It's going to be very nice running multiple intensive app's.

But I still like the amd64 better

[SpiralDragon]

aperantly Intel still have one more surprise coming in.... i wonder

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Prescott is having problems with 0.09um tho. Hopefully AMD has this time to ramp up their chips' clock speed!

Image a 3.2GHz Athlon FX 64 scoring 400003dmark and 600fps in Q3A

damn it, I am so nVIDIOT!!!!!!

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by SpiralDragon
aperantly Intel still have one more surprise coming in.... i wonder

I'm guessing Yamhill.