Best Core?

[imported_Noob]

What is the best core for an Intel CPU? I heard it was Prescott. I just want to verify if this is true.

 

[miketheidiot]

winchestor.


wait, what? HUH?

 

[ts3433]

Best core according to what criteria/measurement?

Northwood is cooler, Prescott is slightly faster in some instances, and I think the Prescott may overclock a little better.

 

[SrGuapo]

Dothan..

Or do you mean Pentium4? There are 2 cores for the current P4s. Northwood and Prescott. Prescott is a tad faster (and supports the higher end chips), alot hotter, and is socket 775, which is the only one that supports PCI-e. Northwood is currently being phased out (or are they even being made anymore?), so they are hard to find and kinda expensive.

 

[stevty2889]

Northwood core was better, runs cooler, and usualy performs better in most things at the same speed as a prescott. Prescotts do seem to overclock a little better, and once they get past 3.6hz, they start to perform better than a northwood, but they stopped them at 3.8ghz, because beyond they are having heat issues, and start to throttle themselves down. If you are refering to any Intel core, and not just desktop, then the Pentium-M Dothan core is the best Intel has. There are a couple of desktop boards that will support them now, and they seem to perform really well when overclocked.

 

[clarkey01]

Northwood was the best past core Intel had, yields were great and performance was great, also it only cost them $25 to make, back in the PII/PIII days the cost was more like $50-60.

Best current core is Dothan, low power consumption and great for users who use thier laptops constantly( longer battery life). However where it has strong points, it has weakness's, the floating point for one. In order for a dual core dothan to come to fruition & compete with the K9 they will need to tweak the core quite a bit.

 

[clarkey01]

if your thinking of getting a P4, go for the 3.2 Ghz or if you can find the 3.4Ghz ( nrothwood) then do . Im not a fan of prescott at all and despite what may people say, it hardlly gets any faster the+n northwood after 3.6 Ghz, more of a myth then anything. Northwood also runs cooler and consumes less power due to its design and 130 nm process it was made on.

 

[carlosd]

For P4 Northwood C, the others are crap.