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Intel Discontinues Extreme Edition P4

Posted by timothy on from the only-diamonds-are-forever dept.

bizpile writes "X-bit Labs reports that Intel is stopping production of its Extreme Edition Pentium 4s. The company said in its statement sent to clients, 'Market demand for the Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging has shifted to higher performance Intel processors.'"

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  1. Re:AMD for gaming, Intel for real work. by Madcat123 · · Score: 0, Troll

    > While you're at it, you'd better check your Microsoft using your Norton, I think your Adobe just got trashed.

    Norton? That performance hog? pfft. Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition - Now there's a nice light-weight AV client.

    Anyway, windows sucks by nature for multi-tasking due to its awful memory management, so I'm not even going there. 1gb RAM and it eats into swap on first chance. Only way to avoid it is disable swap completely.

    Madcat.