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What's the likelyness of northwoods dropping a little bit when the prescott's go retail? no chance at all? 
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prescot=price drop on Northwood?
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it will drop but probably won't be much. probably enough to buy a big Mac
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Woohoo! A $3-$5 price drop.....
Woohoo! A $3-$5 price drop.....
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Can anyone inform me of when the Prescott's will hit the shelves, and how much we can expect to pay for them? I am thinking about going to intel for my next rig, but I want to do more reaserch on the expected performance of the Prescotts.
What is a good review site for CPU's anyway; I used to go to tomshardware, but I heard some people bad mouth him. So anyone got any other suggestions? Thanks
What is a good review site for CPU's anyway; I used to go to tomshardware, but I heard some people bad mouth him. So anyone got any other suggestions? Thanks
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Try pricewatch.com. Or if you like the OEM prices, check out Dell.
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dreIU said:
A few places (Azzo and Monarch Computer) have already stocked them, but anwhere that had have sold out for the most part.
As for performance, the Northwood is better in most apps; the cache advantage for the Prescott is usually not even enough to make up for its longer pipeline. The Northwood also cools better, and we already know what motherboards are able to handle a Northie - all of them!
For reviews, I prefer [H]ardOCP's no-BS approach for the most part, and XBit Labs is a pretty good one, too. Oh, and Lost Circuits... very thorough and methodical.
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Arkangyl said:
Think I read it at Anands, but I can't remeber. Intel won't be dropping prices, but retailers will probably lower NW prices lower then Prescotts because there is going to be a higher demand for the newer, bigger cache chips. So there may be another price drop coming.
Then again I think the few Prescotts that are being sold are already a bit higher then NWs of the same speed on those sites, so there maybe no need for retailers to drop the price.
Either way I'd wait a week or so before ordering a NW. Or just wait a month or so for the next Prescott stepping. 4 ghz on air is so close I can taste it
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I would wait a months, to see if ghz can make up for the longer pipeline.
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Glaive said:
WELCOME TO THE FORA!
Also I might add to check out price watch. Also, make sure you check the reseller rating before buying becuase some of those companies do not exist
Also, is this relating to any type of CPU other then Intel? Why are we posting in the generalized CPU section and not Intel?
Let's post in correct category next time. Don't worry, no big deal, just a common problem we have here. At first I did it sevral time myself, im sure almost everyone has.
Cheers!
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OC Noob said:4 ghz on air is so close I can taste it
Is this a known fact that it will be capable of, or are we just hoping?
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well no matter what prices will always drop...but sept for gas
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Why is it that Newegg.com doesn't have the Prescotts yet? All I see is the Nothwood chips.
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drelU, newegg only has the 2.8E prescott
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Ahhh, ooops I see. hehe
OMG, that thing is dirt cheap!! I paid almost double for my xp3000 six months ago. I do have mixed feelings about this prescott thing tho.
OMG, that thing is dirt cheap!! I paid almost double for my xp3000 six months ago. I do have mixed feelings about this prescott thing tho.
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dreIU said:
Nothing a month from now is a fact as it hasn't happened at. Its just my guess that with a month or so to work out issues this chip wil finally start ramping up to those kinds of speeds.
They are shooting for 4 ghz stock by the end of the year and us overclockers always see those speeds on air well before the stock processors of that speed are released.
To the point, don't wait for a month and then come beat me up because Prescott isn't doing 4 ghz on air, its just my prediction/guess or what ever you want to call it. I do however, give a guarentee that we will have chips that do 4 ghz on air by dec. 31st
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