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Intel Prescott Released

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-another-CPU dept.

daemonslayer writes "The nondisclosure agreement on Intel's long awaited new Pentium 4, codenamed Prescott, has just been lifted. So can it beat its predecessor, the Northwood? Find out at Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, or any of the other thousand review sites." Or HotHardware, PC Magazine, XBitLabs, or HardOCP. Basically, looks like it's faster, but still not the fastest in all areas. Tide goes in, tide goes out.

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  1. from the amd information minister... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our INTEL says Opteron is faster =)

  2. 2 Jags Prescott by reality-bytes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its only people from the UK who will know what I'm talking about but every time I hear 'prescott', an overweight, drink-laden scruffy politician with a McDonalds voucher in his pocket springs to mind.

    This also conjours up an impression of the Intel Prescotts being in ineffecient, environmentally-unfriendly and handling code in an annoying accent.

    Why oh why couldn't Intel have called them something else, like Intel Bloody Powerful chips?

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    1. Re:2 Jags Prescott by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

      Its only people from the UK who will know what I'm talking about but every time I hear 'prescott', an overweight, drink-laden scruffy politician with a McDonalds voucher in his pocket springs to mind.

      Intel markets it as the TedKennedy core in the US.

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