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The real dirt on Prescott
Name: burtonperson Date: July 15, 2004 at 12:49:56 Pacific OS: XPP CPU/Ram: 3.0/512
Comment:
So i am in the work of picking products for my upcoming system build before reading this i was think prescott all the way now i'm not so sure, what do you think?
What the real advantage of Prescott? is it superior to a same MHz hyperthreaded chip? if not what is intel's best Proccessor right now for the desktop?
Name: mainux Date: July 15, 2004 at 13:17:44 Pacific
Reply:
Extreme Edition is their best but you probably do not want to pay $999 dollars for it. Prescott is hyperthreaded and is Intel's newest proc so if your an intel fan go with it (3.2 GHZ or higher)
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Response Number 2
Name: SkipCox Date: July 15, 2004 at 15:46:28 Pacific
Reply:
How about best buy...P4C 2.4. The problems you'll run into with a P4E chip are not insurmountable but they are irritating.
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