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LOL Pentium 4 on sale but can't be used

I guess you could say what the article says, mobos ought to be available next week (according to the same sources quoted about the CPU's availability). Or that rather than the initially projected "100,000 or less" P4's to be produced in Q4 2000, the figure has been changed to several hundred thousand. Or finally, that instead of the P4 being mainstream in 2002, the P4 will comprise more than half of Intel's total CPU volume in 2001.

The real point being that Intel is getting very serious, and more importantly, refocused on executing on the manufacturing end, which was always considered one of their major strengths.

We ain't seen nothin' yet, from either Intel or AMD. The year ahead is going to be very interesting indeed, moreso than 2000 even.
 
one thing about what the intel guy said... is mp3 decoding really an issue anymore? i mean, a 486 can do it. i guess he means encoding. stupid cnet.
 
as the great wierd al says it's all about the pentiums, though, i get the feeling when the dual amd mobo's come out amd's business will sail. a $130 mobo, 2 $100 chips and you can get dual 1.1 gig system. To buy that Intels way $130 mobo, 2 $1000 chips, . . . and you'll probly hafta go rdram, so another thou there
 
Anybody think the P4's worth the money? Or should we all wait until the end of the year when they drop in price?
 
ArkAoss, think about it. How many applications for Win9x support dual CPUs? Does the Win9x OS support dual CPUs? What is the ubiquitous operating system? Git the drift? Face it, dual CPUs are for a niche market. Of course, that may change in the future, but today that's the way it is.
 
as the great wierd al says it's all about the pentiums, though, i get the feeling when the dual amd mobo's come out amd's business will sail. a $130 mobo, 2 $100 chips and you can get dual 1.1 gig system. To buy that Intels way $130 mobo, 2 $1000 chips, . . . and you'll probly hafta go rdram, so another thou there

I am sorry a 1.1Ghz Athlon chip is NOT $100. It is $370 a piece.

RDRAM is MUCH cheaper then the last time you looked. Kingston is going to give huge discounts and you can pickup 256MB of PC800 for around $200-300.
 
uh... ibmer... by the time the 760mp comes out, amd will have dropped its prices. plus hes probably talking about overclocking anyway.

i'd build a dual rig, oneeighty. not that uncommon.
 
Yeah, I definitly did mean overclocking a lower level chip, and probly should include into that some funds for cooling for such a system. hey if you over clock the multiplier on a chip and not the fsb, you dont have to worry much about the pci and other busses holding you back do you, it just dawned on me,
 
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