A Prescott 2.4???

[buddhika]

Are there any prescott P4 2.4 Ghz processors in the market??
What is the different between prescott and northwood???

 

[Psych]

AFAIK, there are no 2.4E processors. Look up the difference between the 2 cores on this site and many, many, many other ones. Look back to the March-ish articles and you will find what you are looking for.

 

[jpeyton]

Actually, there are. Just bought two more last night (have three total) and I'm testing the two later today.

The first one is Prime stable at 3GHz default voltage.

Precott is a 90nm core, and comes with 1MB L2 cache. Northwoods are actually slightly faster, but so slight you'd need a benchmark to tell.

 

[LTC8K6]

They are called 2.4A, yes just like the earlier P4. They have a 533mhz bus, 1MB cache, and no hyperthreading.

There is also a 2.8A Prescott with the same specs. Don't confuse it with the 2.8E Prescott, which has the 800mhz bus, 1MB cache, and hypertheading.

 

[OverVolt]

Why did they even release Prescott? More pipelines at the same frequency, woo hoo!

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: OverVolt
Why did they even release Prescott? More pipelines at the same frequency, woo hoo!

Because Northwood yields probably won't be reliable past 3.4GHz

 

[stevty2889]

3.4Ghz is the end of the line for the northwood, the extra pipelines that the prescott has, makes it slower clock for clock than the northwood but allows it to reach higher speeds. Like the others said, the 2.4A is a prescott with no hyperthreading, thats the only 2.4 prescott. I have a 2.8E prescott running rock stable at 3.5Ghz at the moment on air cooling.