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

Posted by timothy on Monday February 21, 2005 @02:51AM 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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It's not inevitable... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-21 02:57 · Score: 3, Insightful

...why should it be? AMD used to have heat issues, and they managed to find a way around them. To me, this almost seems like cheating on Intel's part. And what are they going to use as the excuse to "step down" a processor I paid to have run at a certain speed? With a laptop, they have the "save battery" excuse, which is a valid one (but still over-ridable by the user) - what's the desktop equivalent? The fact that they can't cool their processors is definitely not a good "excuse".