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Intel Demos New P4 'Extreme Edition'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 17, 2003 @09:35AM from the extremely-lame-name dept.

typobox43 writes "Louis Burns of Intel displayed a "high-definition video stream running on a 'mystery' desktop processor." This processor turned out to be the new Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.20 GHz, with an extra 2 Megabytes of cache."

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Lone voice... by nacturation · 2003-09-17 09:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

A lone voice pipes up from the back of the room, "Get a Macintosh!"

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High Def video is not that CPU intensive! by mr.henry · 2003-09-17 10:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Wow, my AMD Duron 1000 can show a 'high definition video stream.' I bet it looked gorgeous and impressed the hell out of everybody (as good HD usually does), but this isn't really a difficult thing to do.
Show something useful, like, say, transcoding a dual layer DVD so it will fit on a single DVD-R.
If you're wondering where the L3 cache came from.. by SuperKendall · 2003-09-17 12:51 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They stole it from Apple's new Powerbooks. So that's where it went!

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