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Intel Demos New P4 'Extreme Edition'
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."
Saturday. Saturday! SATURDAY!
At Intel Headquarters!
Witness the unveiling of the next...
Biggest!
Meanest!
Fastest processor you can imagine.
Pen-Pent-Pentium EXXXXXTREME
It's 3.2 gigahertz of binary badness.
Come witness as it peforms calculations at mind-boggling speeds!
Special Guest The Blue Man Group
Tickets start at $20 for adults, discounts for children and seniors
If you miss this, you'd better be dead... or in jail...
And if you're in jail, break out!
they must be reading maddox's site
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
Extreme close up! Whhoooooooooooo... Whhoooooooooooo.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
I wanna see major competition between Intel and AMD. That way I can get my 875P motherboard "tossed in free with the purchase of any Intel Pentium 4 Extreme(tm) Processor." It's about time I upgraded from a Celeron 433 anyway. Ghost Recon plays more like Ghost Recon: The Slideshow.
Joe
This "extreme" version of the chip has to be aimed at a very niche market
Yes, it's the 'mine's bigger' market, though I wouldn't call it niche, exactly.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
[NO CARRIER]
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Louis Burns of Intel displayed a "high-definition video stream running on a 'mystery' desktop processor.
Gosh, one of these days I'll have to take a sneak peak at the hardware they run in that mystery little room in my local theater. The monitor is so big, the soundcard is great, and I can see it all for a buck!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Please send a message to the X-tra stupid Advertising XX-cutives that X in the name is X-tremely dated and not an X-ellent idea.
The new marketing buzzword is 'Shit-Hot', as in "The new Intel Shit-Hot P4!"
Thanks.
I struggle to tax it with anything I do, including some of the more intensive games.
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Try "nice -n 20 dd bs=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null"
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
3.2 GHz! That's 6.7% faster than 3.0 GHz! You feel the need to send money to Intel! Fnord! Imagine how fast the Internet will be if you have one of these on your desktop! You will need a neon-colored bunny suit just to look at your computer! You will be assimilated by the Blue Man Group!
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
Would that give you a PC with BuTtoX Extreme inside?? :-D
A little planning goes a long way...
I need that much juice. My Windows machine typically handles mIRC, Yahoo Messenger, 3D Studio Max, 3 or 4 IE instances, etc.
Of course, most of those programs are essentially idle at any given moment. But when I'm trying to render a massive 3dmax scene while switching over IRC to ramble libertarianesquely about the failings and dangers of big government, while at the same time opening/reading 3 or 4 web documents... my machine bogs down on me. Now, this machine is a P4-2.9GHz with a gig of RAM on SCSI disks... perhaps the extended speed and cache on the new CPU would make a difference.
At the same time, I could use one of these on my colo box, which is hosting 17 domains with about 3,000 pageloads per hour. Then again, I could always get something other than x86, if I weren't a cheap and ignorant bastard.
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
Well something had to replace "turbo."
I was so disappointed when I cracked the case of my 286 and didn't find an HKK in there somewhere. I had thought that maybe I could replace the one big one with two little ones to reduce net lag.
From the marketing point of view the advantage of "Xtreme" is that you can't prove it isn't in there somewhere. Maybe keeping the Magic Smoke in or something.
The disadvantage is that they can't play games by making you think the go slower button is really a go faster button. I hated having to explain that to people, they always got mad at me.
Killing the messenger always works, if you're a nitwit.
KFG
" I need that much juice. My Windows machine typically handles mIRC, Yahoo Messenger, 3D Studio Max, 3 or 4 IE instances, etc."
3 or (gasp!) 4!!!! instances of IE?!?!?!?
Dude, you are XTREEEEEEEEEEME!
graspee
In a couple of months Intel will be releasing the new Pentium IV TypeR !!!! The heatsink will even have one of those ugly shopping cart handle type spoilers and NEON too...........
I'm still waiting for the new "Athlon Unleashed".
Some of these people even believe they need more than 640K of RAM.
According to research at an English university, people will always buy whatever the guy in the shop says is "best".
I was hoping for Pentuim 4 Turbo Alpha.
HAAAAADOUKEN
Here we go again. Fastest chip in the world; nobody, not even weather computer people could ever want faster, blah blah, bollocks bollocks; everyone knows in 12 months granny will want a PC with one in it and we'll all "need" something with a gazyllion terabytes of RAM and that runs at a googolplex hertz just to do some silly emails and stuff.
Was looking through a 1984 copy of Personal Computer World and it was saying exactly the same about the new 2MHz 8086 or whatever. Would've thought those crazy marketers'd have learnt by now that in IT there's a new "fastest in the world" every few months.
Still, I suppose some people will be new around here and be impressed by this sort of crap. I know I was, first time (probably in 1981 or thereabouts) I saw a front page "Fastest in the World!" story; second time round I thought hang on, haven't we been here before?
And yes, I know that's before some of you here were born, before any of you point it out and depress me even further.
Well, im EXTREMEly disappointed.
If i'm an uber-kewl l33t gam3r k1d, and i'm buying this just to show my equally pathetic friends that im the 0wn3r, how am I suppose to do this without a TEESHIRT!! I NEED TO SHOW OFF!
Intel may never get their market.
from thesaurus.com:
Entry:
extreme
Synonyms:
acute, consummate, great, greatest, high, highest, intense, maximal, maximum, severe, sovereign, supreme, top, ultimate, utmost, uttermost
Antonyms:
limited, mild, moderate
"P4 Acute" - sounds like a Honda
"P4 Consummate" - sounds like something you'd cook
"P4 Great" - sounds retarded
"P4 High" - sounds like a urinal competition
"P4 Intense" - sounds like a pun
"P4 Maximal" - sounds like a condom
"P4 Sovereign" - sounds like an archaeological discovery
"P4 Severe" - sounds like a poisons classification
"P4 Supreme" - sounds like a pizza
"P4 top" - sounds like a urinal competition to avoid
"P4 ultimate" - sounds like more condoms
"P4 utmost" - sounds dumb
I'll settle for P4 Extreme
Being an excessive literalist myself, I always think that "extreme" indicates that something is at the far end of a spectrum.
For example, this new chip is at the far positive end of the price spectrum, and at the far negative end of the "will I really need this in the next three years" spectrum. It, being on the far ends of two spectrums, qualifies as EXXTREME.
(Nevermind that my first online nick had xtreme in it. I was 15, sue me.)
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
On my friend's computer it seemed to stand for "Xcruciating Torment". He hated that thing.
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
The Pentium Alpha Zero 4 Plus Championship Rainbow Remix Euro Fighter vs. Capcom 2 Revision 1.7!
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It started off with Street Fighter 2. Then Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition. Then Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Then Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers...
I think it took them 3 or 4 years to actually get to Street Fighter 3.
Anything to compile GNOME faster...
Still doesn't beat a dual 2GHz G5 machine.
Lol.. ok come clean. The whole purpose of your post was to gloat about having a girlfriend and nothing else. Fucker.
Wow, Apple has a processor that runs at a WHOPPING 2GHz, that's only like 500MHz less than my 2 year old PC.