Author: Nolan Denson
Date: 12:18:21 04/01/04
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It is my belief that the Prescott will be the fastest. The longer pipe line does slow things down a bit. So if you too a Prescott 3.4 and a Northwood 3.4 the 3.4 Northwood is faster ... But here is the trick ... if you overclock he 3.4 Prescott .. the rate a which its starts to out perform an Northwood is unbelievable. Also from what i know this same prescott core will be what Intel will use to introduce its 64 bit .. possible in a new socket design .. not sure but the numbers 778 socket seems to jump out at me. No Intel Processor can touch the AMD Elites without (the aid of overclocking ) and the core is only in the Prescott Line. But if you wanted a Intel processor and plan not to over clock it is best you get the Northwood. Prescotts with the cooler core voltage, bigger l1 and l2 cache is an overclockers dream. I order a system with a prescott core, but when it came it was only a Northwood 3.4 GHz ... I was able to over clock it to about 3.8 Ghz with no problems ... but it still didn't bench as fast as the top AMD's. Sent the system back and demand that i get the Prescott core. It is my believe that i should be able to get overclock it to about 4.0GHz and because of the design compaired to an Norwood cord it should perform close to what a 4.8 - 5.0 GHz Northwood (that is not overclock). So in a nutshell if you over clock both the Northwood and the Prescott to the same speed, the Prescott will be much much faster.
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