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post #21 of 33
3/2/05 at 7:32pm
Yes now all it takes is a price drop of around a 150 bux on the 3.4 EE and/or me saving up another months of internship paycheck....and I am good to go on getting the EE. This time I will get a tube of Arctic Silver as well...and ebay my Prescott proc off
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post #22 of 33
3/2/05 at 7:40pm
So the EE is NOT a Prescott and therefore is nice and fast however not that hot?
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post #23 of 33
3/2/05 at 8:35pm
Yes the 3.4 Northwood EE is NOT a Prescott and therefore is nice and fast AND not that hot. It has a shorter pipeline and is based on the tried and true 130nm tech which means less heat. i know i know 90 nm is supposed to have less heat but not so as of yet.... There are other EEs out thee however so you gotta pick the Socket 478 Northwood ver.
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post #24 of 33
3/3/05 at 8:38am
never mind
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post #25 of 33
3/3/05 at 11:18am
I was considering replacing my 3.4 northwood with a 2.6... just to see what the battery life would be. I don't think I'd see that much real performance difference (I know the benchmarks will go down...)

Thoughts?

Art
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post #26 of 33
3/3/05 at 11:59am
on another note...i may consider moving to 3.4 northwood nonEE from my 2.8Prescott......BUT....what is the downside? what sorta application or functions perform much better with 1024 L2 instead of 512?

TIA
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post #27 of 33
3/3/05 at 2:29pm
actually alias the northwood because of its shorter pipeline is faster in some apps whereas the prescott is slightly faster in some apps. that is why i am getting the EE to last me for a long time since the EE is as fast as the fastest procs Intel has right now (almost) and thats without the insane heat those procs produce. So if you want more performance you can obviously overclock and with the lesser heat being produced you could even push your system quiet high i am assuming. i think www.gamepc.com has a lot of info on the EE.
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post #28 of 33
3/4/05 at 8:41pm
Is this CPU a Northwood, and work in an iXPS?
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post #29 of 33
3/4/05 at 9:26pm
thats Socket 775 we need socket 478. And they only have 512 Cache unless its an Extreme Edition which have 1 Meg if I remember correctly.

And none of the CPUs with the new naming designation i.e. P4 550 560 etc.. is a socket 478. Ours are still refered to by thier speed.

Heres one - http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...116-163&depa=1
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post #30 of 33
3/4/05 at 9:44pm
EE have 2 MB of cache
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post #31 of 33
3/4/05 at 10:58pm
L3 Cache - 2MB
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post #32 of 33
3/5/05 at 6:15pm
By the way, the Prescott-2 (6 series) has 2MB secondary cache (like the EE), still runs on the 90nm process, has advanced SpeedStepping (runs cooler than the regular Prescott, lifted from the Pentium M), DEP, and is an EMT64 processor as well.

Just tried out a 650 (Prescott-2, 3.4GHz) in my Precision 370, runs *almost* as cool as a comparable Northwood, and is as fast as the 3.4EE.

Makes for a very cost efficient alternative to an EE processor, though I'd still give a very slight edge to the 3.4EE for demanding encoding etc.

The Prescott-2 seems to have most of the advantages of the Northwood & the EE, while running cooler; good riddance, Prescott-1.
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post #33 of 33
3/6/05 at 12:53am
There's really no point in having a 2mb cache with that high of clock cycles, but hey, whatever.

Intel is now scrapping the entire prescott core, thank God.
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