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Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets
ThinSkin writes "Nearly 18 months after rival AMD released its 64-bit processors, Intel quietly added its first 64-bit Pentium 4 microprocessors to the market on Sunday. Four versions of the Intel Pentium 4 6XX series were announced at speeds up to 3.6-GHz, a frequency grade lower than the existing 5XX series. Prices will range from $224 to $605. Intel also added the 3.73-GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition to its lineup, a $999 chip that is fabricated on a finer 90-nm process than its older 130-nm P4EE components. As Slashdot previously reported, the 64-bit series will likely be the major enhancement to the Pentium 4 line before the introduction of the Pentium D "Smithfield," Intel's first dual-core part, which is slated for next quarter."
He's a good man, I've worked with him for over a decade. He's no Bill Brasky, though/
Now the A46 prices should come down a bit.
Was it just me or did anyone read that as the Pentium D "Seinfeld"?
Not that there's anything wrong with it...
Now Intel can cook my toast using more than 4 GB of memory!
I love you suckers out there who are buying these top of the line, bleeding edge chips. It brings the price of "outdated" hardware back to reasonable levels.
Now if you excuse me, I have a 486 DX4 100MHz that I've been keeping an eye on for a while.
Does that come with... uh... Intel Extreme Graphics? Sweet!
Anyone know how much heat these put out?
...about a volkswagon's worth.
Blarf.
Are they really AMD-compatible?
You mean the heat that you get from converting a volkswagon to energy (E=mc2), right?
Amen. This x000+ crap has got to stop. I'm t hinking we need some sort of ISO standard for clock speed, something we can compare PowerPCs, AMDs, Intels, and the like together without having to pull out a calculator and Google for benchmark tests. However it wont happen due to some stupid reason or other.
-Eric Smith
Yes, I have or something simulations to run!
(is it ok to use * and HTML emphasis?)
What's the plural of emphasis?
Shut up. OK.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Thunk thunk thunk...
(That's the sound of 32 bit code on a 64 bit processor...or was that 16 bit code on a 32...I forget...)
At least according to what I have learned from the Simpsons.
Patty: The easiest way to be popular is to leech off the popularity of others.
Selma: So we propose changing our name from "Springfield" to "Seinfeld".
Intel can start making processors with names that make sense!
Pentium D Costanza!
- This is our newest budget-aimed processor which will deliver today's technology in ways you can't imagine. The Costanza will answer your multimedia needs thru experimentations that one would never dare to even think of.
Pentium D Kramer
- We are very proud of this processor. The main audience are the gamers in general who don't want to spend too much money on something as radical as this. The Pentium Kramer will deliver spontaneous performance boosts thru applications and make random noises whenever the cpu is overheating.
Pentium D Steinbrenner
- Our flagship product, the Pentium D Steinbrenner will deliver performance beyond your expectations. Not only does it come with 2MB of Cache but it also comes with a special software that has been added into the cpu which will warn the user when he's about to click on something that may be a virus. We call this feature the 'Steinbrenner Alarm':
STEINBRENNER ALARM: Of course. Of course you can do it. Things get done all the time, I understand. Don't worry, your job'll be waiting for you when I say so! Get better user 'GEORGE'! Get betteeeeeeeeeer!!!!!!!
Yeah.... now I so want one!
Whoa. I did some math and the energy contained in any object with the mass of a VW Beetle (810kg) is enough to bring 217 trillion kilograms of water from room temperature to boiling.
Illegal? Samir, This is America.
He said, "RTFA, you fuckwit.".
immediately they're overtaken by AMD64s and G5s once they get on the freeway. They're really easy to spot with an infrared camera, too. Kinda like overheated, broken down cars.
how would you know the "Mass Defect" of a VW Beetle? thats like knowing the molar mass of a fish.
this site claims, that the average mass of a fish is 18,4 pounds. Or 8.34609961 kilograms or 8346,08861g.
Avogadros constant is 6.02214199 × 10**23, so the molar mass of fish is 5,02613307 × 10**27 or 5026,13307 septillion
Not sure what use it is though.
Freedom or George Bush
Of course if you want to get REALLY picky, we should be calling them Convectors, not Radiators, as the vast majority of the heat is transferred to the air.
:)
Just my two-penneths worth
No good deed ever goes unpunished.