Where are the prescott celerons?

[Caffinehog]

I've been looking foreward to these... 256K cache... half a northwood, but twice a northie celeron... should be sufficeint for decent performance for the price. 533mhz bus... might hit 166 in a good system.

BUT.....

Where are they? I thought intel claimed they had tons of these but few prescott P4's. Something's fishy.

[Flakk]

Originally posted by Caffinehog
Something's fishy. maybe it has something to do with that green blob on your stick figures crotch :\

[Krowa 02]

They did, but instead of selling them as celerons, they are selling them with the cache enabled without hyper threading and on 533 bus. Currently they are the 2.4 prescotts you can get now, ive seen em at newegg.

[RubiX³]

Originally posted by Flakk
maybe it has something to do with that green blob on your stick figures crotch :\

LOLOLOL

[Caffinehog]

Originally posted by Flakk
maybe it has something to do with that green blob on your stick figures crotch :\

One must respect the Yatta, or I shall say the zeeky words!

[Phoenix '97]

They're coming in June I believe, I heard somewhere the exact date could be June 25th...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26/intel_desktop_roadmap/

[Finken]

Anyone know what they'r going to be priced like?

I'lve allways wanted to see what a celeron can do when really OCed to the extreme! :)

[Caffinehog]

Well, most celerons start a little over $100, then drop quickly to around $70. These are going to fill the same niche, with 1/4 the cache of the main production processor, so judging from Intel's past, I'd say the price will be about the same. There may be a $5-10 premium since it's better than previous celerons, but that'll probably be about it.

[Busty St. Clair]

y would you want a presscott celeron. the presscott can barely keep up with a northwood and the presscott has twice the cache. just imagine how slow it will be crippled with 1/4 the cache.

[Rio71]

when i see wat my mobile celerons can do... with 256kb.
the big differences to desktop cely's is only the more of 128kb.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=190341&highlight=c4m
but the cel-p comes with the longer pipeline...

here an first ES in live.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=33946

[Caffinehog]

The longer pipeline doesn't seem to hurt prescott much in relation to northwoods, at least in P4 processors. These celerons will likely overclock as much as P4 prescotts, maybe more because of the lower cache, and maybe more because you won't be putting such a high bus speed on the memory. (You probably won't get past 166 on these....) Yeah, I know that's a performance hit, and yeah, I know less cache will hurt. But 256K won't hurt as much as 128K. They'll be $70, not the $150 P4 price, and keep in mind that you won't need a top-of-the-line motherboard or memory to clock these to their max. So what if it's 15% slower than a P4 of the same speed! Overclocked to it's max, it'll perform as good as intel's flagship P4's.

Remember your roots! Overclocking started not as a way to go faster than everyone else, but as a way to save money by buying something cheaper or making your old computer useful longer.

[Stylist]

Hi,

the new Celeron D have a better relation between price and performance IMHO.

[Caffinehog]

Umm... Celeron D. That's a prescott! So they're selling as mobile celerons or something?

[glasszon]

According to the image he posted, it is only a ES chip

[Stylist]

Originally posted by glasszon
According to the image he posted, it is only a ES chip

Thats right, I havent seen a retail anywhere ant the moment.
But IMHO it is a really good choice for low price/performance concerns.
At 3.7GHz it performs like a 3.2C GHz Northwood and outperfomed it sometimes.
So maybe the best bang for your bug if it should be cheap.

Sorry for my english I am from Europe.

[k_r_i_p_l_e_r]

why would anyone want a celeron

[aNTiChRisT]

Originally posted by k_r_i_p_l_e_r
why would anyone want a celeron

What a useless point, as said before...

Originally posted by Caffinehog
Overclocking started not as a way to go faster than everyone else, but as a way to save money by buying so mething cheaper or making your old computer useful longer.

~t0m

[bobad]

Originally posted by Caffinehog


One must respect the Yatta, or I shall say the zeeky words!

I always said to never mess with a guy with a green crotch.