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New Pentium Chipsets Launched

Posted by Zonk on from the we-have-the-technology dept.

MojoDog writes "Today Intel has officially taken the wraps off their new mainstream Pentium D 820 Processor and i945 Express series chipsets. Additionally, they also cranked up the Pentium 4 6XX sequence line-up to include the new Pentium 4 670 at 3.8GHz. The Pentium D 820 is Intel's new dual core CPU clocked at 2.8GHz, which contains two Prescott cores per die but doesn't support HyperThreading like the Pentium Extreme Edition 840. The i945 is their new mainstream PCI Express based chipset, one version of which has Integrated Graphics and both supporting these new dual core CPUs. Additionally, Intel took their Pentium 4 6XX sequence processor, based on the Prescott 2M core, for a speed bump to 3.8Ghz."

6 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. naming convention by y2dt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a Pentium 4 670 at 3.8GHz, Pentium D 820 at 2.8Ghz, a Pentium Extreme Edition 840 w/o HT, and a Pentium 4 6XX based on the Prescott 2M core???

    seriously, how is this naming convention better than the old one?

  2. Dual core versus hyperthreading by sunderland56 · · Score: 3, Informative
    The Pentium D 820 [...] contains two Prescott cores per die but doesn't support HyperThreading

    Huh? Hyperthreading was a constrained, limited ability to run two concurrent streams of execution on one physical chip. Dual core CPUs allow unlimited execution of two streams. "Doesn't support hyperthreading" is listed here as if it was a limitation - but in fact dual core (in the benchmarks I'm running) conmpletely blows away any hyperthreaded chip. This is a far better, far more powerful, solution.

    It is nice to see Intel finally catching up with AMD....

    1. Re:Dual core versus hyperthreading by Erwos · · Score: 4, Informative

      You're missing one thing: the Pentium D EE _does_ have hyper-threading on both cores (looks like a 4 CPU system to your OS). HT and dual core is not an either/or proposition - you can have both, and HT is not going to hinder performace on dual core CPUs.

      -Erwos

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      Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
  3. Way to suck... by http101 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...power. Why is Intel consistently a prime waste of power? (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050509/cual_cor e_athlon-19.html)

    When wattage is spiking that high, I'd rather use the AMD processor solely because of the ever-increasing demand and cost of electricity. So not only are they cost-efficient and energy-efficient, but they're also faster and more durable. In the past 4 years, I've burned up (plugged it in, turned it on) a handful of Intel chips just because they were defective (purchased at various stores) and lost 1 AMD to a direct lightning strike.

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    -- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
  4. Re:Struggling by PlazMan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh, Intel's stock ticker is INTC, and the last six months have been pretty decent.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=INTC&t=6m

  5. Not upgrading yet. by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm waiting for the 9xx series, because they support VT (Vanderpool) machine virtualization in hardware.

    Bye-bye reboots to switch between Windows and Linux.