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New Pentium 5 Details - 5-7ghz?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the redundant-naming-schemes dept.

zymano writes "This article gives some details on Pentium 5. It will have 64 bit extensions and maybe a 4000 mhz frontside bus. Quote from the article,'The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design. '"

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  1. Yeah but will it actually feel faster? by localman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I swear that the PIV 2.4 Ghz machines I've used are no faster that some of the P III 1 Ghz boxes I've used. We upgraded all our development boxes at work this way and there was hardly any notable improvement... yes, the memory is tricked out so we're not having swapping issues. But you run apache, mysql, and X on one of them and it just doesn't seem like an improvement.

    Are they doing a direct trade off where they ramp up the clockspeed and break the instructions down so that less is getting done per clock or something?

    Cheers.