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Prescott vs. Northwood
Name: Doxy Date: August 3, 2005 at 16:10:49 Pacific OS: 98/xp CPU/Ram: P4 w/512
Comment:
What's the real world difference between the Prescott & Northwood cores as it pertains to performance?
My Asus P4S533 has been running a OCed Northwood, and I have been considering an upgrade to a 2.8Ghz/533fsb CPU.
Name: Dj YoUnG-D Date: August 3, 2005 at 19:19:02 Pacific
Reply:
prescott was made with 1mb cache whereas the northwood was made with 512k cache. Although the northwood benches better than the prescott
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Response Number 2
Name: Cobra_R Date: August 4, 2005 at 01:52:20 Pacific
Reply:
Northwoods are much better overclockers then Prescotts. Prescotts run pretty hot compared to the Northwoods, even the new 6 series Prescotts still run hotter then even the first generation Athlon 64's.
If you are into overclocking stick with a Northwood, if not then go with a Prescott.
Funny, AMD used to have heat problems, now Intel does.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dj YoUnG-D Date: August 4, 2005 at 10:17:58 Pacific
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"Funny, AMD used to have heat problems, now Intel does"
Amd still has heat problems in many cores
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Response Number 4
Name: Cobra_R Date: August 4, 2005 at 15:32:04 Pacific
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Yeah but it has gotten a lot better since the good old K6 days where they were almost non overclockable the faster the standard core processor was.
AMD has gotten better in cooling while Intel has gotten worse, that's why the majority of your overclockers now choose newer AMD 64 chips.
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Response Number 5
Name: Doxy Date: August 5, 2005 at 15:13:50 Pacific
Reply:
You would guess that with 1gb of cache Prescotts would really show a clear boost over 512gb Northwoods. Not so?
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