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First Intel Smithfield Dual Core Prices

that's not too bad... for some reason i expected much higher. All the issues with heat and power consumption still bother me though....
 
Not a bad price indeed. I will wait about a year or a year in a half after Dual comes out before I consider getting one. Let them work out the bugs and come out with new revisions and such.
 
be interesting to see how a $528 Dual P4 does against a $850 FX55

supposedly only needs a bios update, if I rememb correctly
 
well...i wouldn't expect those prices in the beginning. people will be charging like 50% more than that to make a good profit...this is similar to what a lot of companies did and still are trying to do with the latest generation videocards. x800xt's for 600-800 bucks? give me a break. 🙂
 
This sounds pretty damn good for those interested in building a new server or something. For Joe Home User, make sure that you really are running tons of multithreaded apps before your splurge 🙂
 
the only down side to all the dual core p4 chips is that they are not support on the 915/925 chipsets. although i did read that thay *may* add support for them, but currently you will need the new board that will be out later this year for them
 
These will be slower for everything but multitasking and multithreaded apps...

I am suprised the prices are so low though, that means performance is likely to not be on Dual-CPU levels.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
These will be slower for everything but multitasking and multithreaded apps...

I am suprised the prices are so low though, that means performance is likely to not be on Dual-CPU levels.
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That's what I'm thinking. There is always a catch.
 
I think the reason they won't cost more is because it's not costing any more to make them. The die size is probably very close to that of a single core prescott with 2mb L2 cache. All the hyperthreading circuits can be removed, and each core gets 1mb L2 cache, so it should cost just about the same to make them.
 
Dumb question: Doesn't XP Home only support single processor systems? Will this be seen as a single or dual processor by the OS?
 
that is cheap. i thought i read somewhere that amd is planning to have theres cost 700. i do not remeber where i read that but this actually makes me think i was wrong about that. can anybody confirm that. i may have read it in one of the CES articles but i am not really sure.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
These will be slower for everything but multitasking and multithreaded apps...
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Not really, compared to chips at the same clock speed. Overall system efficiency should be higher, even playing a single-threaded game. The other core can run the OS and other processes (AV, etc.) while the first plays the game.
 
Originally posted by: jvarszegi
Originally posted by: Acanthus
These will be slower for everything but multitasking and multithreaded apps...
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Not really, compared to chips at the same clock speed. Overall system efficiency should be higher, even playing a single-threaded game. The other core can run the OS and other processes (AV, etc.) while the first plays the game.
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Precisely. The benefit of SMP is more than "1+1=2" - it's that "1+1=Can run multiple CPU-intensive tasks without dragging your system responsiveness down the tubes"

- M4H
 
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