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Overclockers.com Thoughts on Intel
[link=http://www.overclockers.com/articles940/]Overclockers.com: Intel - Pipelines and Prescotts[/link]
[blockquote]Prescott will be introduced within ten days. A lot of disquieting things are being said about it, presumably by those who are actually playing with the beast a little in advance.
In a nutshell, what these statements boil down to is that the pipeline has allegedly been increased to thirty stages, but it doesn't seem to do a whole lot of good in getting power and thermal requirements down to what would be historically expected.
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If you have a CPU that can run at 4GHz, and extending the pipeline means you can reach 5 or 5.5GHz, that's one thing, and probably a good thing. On the other hand, if you have a CPU that is supposed to do 4GHz, but can only do 3GHz, and this is the only way you can make it to go to 4GHz, that's not a good thing, in fact, it's pretty bad.
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[blockquote]Prescott will be introduced within ten days. A lot of disquieting things are being said about it, presumably by those who are actually playing with the beast a little in advance.
In a nutshell, what these statements boil down to is that the pipeline has allegedly been increased to thirty stages, but it doesn't seem to do a whole lot of good in getting power and thermal requirements down to what would be historically expected.
.............
If you have a CPU that can run at 4GHz, and extending the pipeline means you can reach 5 or 5.5GHz, that's one thing, and probably a good thing. On the other hand, if you have a CPU that is supposed to do 4GHz, but can only do 3GHz, and this is the only way you can make it to go to 4GHz, that's not a good thing, in fact, it's pretty bad.
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