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Has the Pentium finaly past on?
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The sooner there's no more POS Prescott's around the better.
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NathanE said:Same goes for K7 Thunderbird'sThose chips ran even hotter and even louder...
I remember struggling to keep my very early 1GHz TBird clocked at 1.2GHz under 70 degrees!
The Palamino cores, particuarly the XP2100 (which I owned) also were hot beasts
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Heh, I remember reading a site where they literally fried an egg on an Athlon and put it in a sarnie!Dureth said:Damn I remember my 1Ghz Athlon. It was the business when I got it. One day I fried the poor bugger though
They were the hottest things since the sun though . . .
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the pentium died when prescott emerged.
Iraklis F.C. said:
Sorry, but you've obviously missed Presler and Cedar Mills. They kind of snuck up on AMD when it wasn't looking and, on an equal cost basis, they're extremely good processors.
Everyone is going on about Core 2 Duo this and that, but actually, for most games, the Core 2 Duo X6800 has no significant advantage over the 965EE. Given that both chips are price competitive with the FX-62, I think that the Extreme Presler is a very good chip indeed.
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WJA96 said:
sure , presler is very good but it came rather late. only 7 months before core2. so even if it is decent chip, its late
Imo the pentium died when the pentium 4 was born.
Someone somewhere decided that the best way to sell processors was to design them to clock high and perform low, and so the megahertz myth was born, and the poor old p3 went on the back burner and became the pm, and then the core duo, and now finally the core 2 duo.
Welcome back old friend. Its been a while.
Good riddance to clock speed marketing. Now most customers haven't a clue whats faster than what, but i think thats better than buying a slower processor for a higher price because they were fooled into thinking it was faster.
The only problem is, i still don't know what to say when someone says 'how fast is that?'.
Do i give them a meaningless number in flops, or calculate an equivalent p4 clock speed or what?
And what will they say on the back of game boxes... they currently say p4 x.x ghz or equivalent. Now what will they say?
Someone somewhere decided that the best way to sell processors was to design them to clock high and perform low, and so the megahertz myth was born, and the poor old p3 went on the back burner and became the pm, and then the core duo, and now finally the core 2 duo.
Welcome back old friend. Its been a while.
Good riddance to clock speed marketing. Now most customers haven't a clue whats faster than what, but i think thats better than buying a slower processor for a higher price because they were fooled into thinking it was faster.
The only problem is, i still don't know what to say when someone says 'how fast is that?'.
Do i give them a meaningless number in flops, or calculate an equivalent p4 clock speed or what?
And what will they say on the back of game boxes... they currently say p4 x.x ghz or equivalent. Now what will they say?
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