New Pentium Chipsets Launched

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 26, 2005 @02:19AM 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."

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naming convention by y2dt · 2005-05-26 02:26 · 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?