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SpeedStep On Your Desktop - Intel's Prescott-2M

Posted by timothy on from the reality-check dept.

Kez writes "Intel's Prescott core has undergone a few changes, and the latest version - Prescott-2M - includes new features, one of which is Enhanced SpeedStep technology. Given the jokes about the heat that the Prescott gives out, Intel had to act. It was inevitable that a power (and heat) saving technology such as SpeedStep would find its way into desktop PCs. HEXUS.net has an article looking at the new Prescott-2M based Pentium 4 660 and Extreme Edition 3.74Ghz CPUs, examining their new features and performance."

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  1. So, I can by Gr8Apes · · Score: 4, Funny

    only fry one egg at a time whilr doing anything other than staring at the login screen?

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  2. Natural Gas Prices are Rising by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I look forward to heating my house with my new Intel processor!

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    1. Re:Natural Gas Prices are Rising by The-Bus · · Score: 2, Funny

      Screw that. Make sure the next Rovers are running these and we'll heat up Mars in no time.

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  3. My Yet-to-be-never-sent letter to Intel by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Intel,

    Thanks for taking such a GREAT APPROACH to your heat problems. I can't WAIT to use one of these new processors in my desktop, only to watch my whole computer DROP IN SPEED as I am an hour into Doom 3. I don't know that I can speak for everyone, but the whole design efficiency thing is overrated anyway. I simply can't live without the noise of a jet engine in my case. Keep cranking up those Mhz and I will continue to have my cpu throttled everytime I do something useful.

    You're the best,
    Sarcastic Consumer

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  4. Awesome! by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now my CPU can slow down if I'm working it too hard.
    This has got to be the best idea since hoola-hoops!

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  5. Perfect for cooking rice... by dnaboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Run some serious number crunching to get a good rolling boil, then drop the cycle speed for that perfect simmering temperature.

    No more mucking around trying to get that gas stove to just the right temperature!

  6. SUX-2000 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Intel was wise in renaming the throttleable version.
    The original P4 is the SUV of CPU's.

  7. Re:It's not inevitable... by olip · · Score: 2, Funny

    uh ? perhaps saving energy?
    Let me guess... your SUV always runs at full throttle ?

  8. Tech progress through geek humor by xtermin8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Given the jokes about the heat that the Prescott gives out, Intel had to act" Geek Jokes are such an important driving factor in improving technology- jokes and Slashdot posts, of course! ;-l

  9. bugger them ! by Alberic · · Score: 2, Funny
    Soon to be released by the Geek Buggers Consortium:
    A deamon that automagically sends support@intel.com a standard mail when CPU is 100% at low speed.
    This mail looks as follows:

    "Dear support team,
    If you received this mail, it's because of a malfuction in your Prescott CPU #22354432, which reached a idle state of 0% during 68 ms while still being in low frequency mode. It had a temperature of 56C

    feel free to ignore this mail as you ignored the 122563 previously sent by this deamon, and just as you ignored the need of a solution for CPU heat problems.

    Yours sincerely,
    The Intel bugger deamon."

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