Pentium 4 S-478 going to ever release >3.06GHz?

[MadRat]

Here it is the end of January and I figured that Intel would be releasing the 3.26GHz chip by now. Could Intel be waiting for the 800fsb before moving to higher clock speeds? Are they going to wait for a new socket design that can support greater clock speeds? It seems like Intel has been hovering at 3.06 for an awfully long time now. Then again AMD's Hammer should have been on sale last quarter, so perhaps I'm getting presumptuous to think Intel should even bother until at least Barton goes gold.

 

[ozone13]

Latest I heard is 2003 is going to be a small increase in actual clockspeed....possibly finishing out the year at 3.6ghz. Intel is now moving to up the bandwidth over pure clockspeed.

 

[MadRat]

It sounds like, from recent online articles, the 3.2 is coming with the new 800fsb only.

 

[Duvie]

Hey madrat!!! I think it is obvious Intel is in stall mode mostly due in part to the lack of amd putting out anything to better Intel and then plus the delay of the hammer chips. INtel seems content with wait and see then react.


I have heard from a source that there were some time back many chips being produced that were doing 3.4ghz plus....I think intel examining bottom line and waiting for amd to work through their paper launches that they had the fastest and no point short changing their own products and revenues. The 800fsb chips or codename p4c chips will start back as far as 2.4ghz and with HT if I have heard right. these chips themselves will not overtake the 3.06ghz but will definitely be stronger then p4b chips and if springdale comes out in conjunction be one heck of a performance boost in bandwidth hungry programs....

 

[ElFenix]

why bother releasing something faster? ain't staleness great?

 

[stonecold3169]

Originally posted by: Duvie
Hey madrat!!! I think it is obvious Intel is in stall mode mostly due in part to the lack of amd putting out anything to better Intel and then plus the delay of the hammer chips. INtel seems content with wait and see then react.


I have heard from a source that there were some time back many chips being produced that were doing 3.4ghz plus....I think intel examining bottom line and waiting for amd to work through their paper launches that they had the fastest and no point short changing their own products and revenues. The 800fsb chips or codename p4c chips will start back as far as 2.4ghz and with HT if I have heard right. these chips themselves will not overtake the 3.06ghz but will definitely be stronger then p4b chips and if springdale comes out in conjunction be one heck of a performance boost in bandwidth hungry programs....

Exactly. Intel DEFINITELY is at least comparable in most price ranges now. They might not win all benchmarks, and might in fact lose most, but the SSE2 set helps a whole lot in media encoding, which honestly to me is a lot more important then 3dmark scores because I don't game. Other then games and encoding, I can't think off the top of my head anything that will stress a processor to max for any period of time (distributed computing?). Even though I run an AMD system (I'm a broke college student, and intel still can't compete with $65 1800+ xps), for me an intel solution would be superior.

When hammer comes out I expect a quick press release to be coming showing a big leap with the P4 or beyond. With the research time and funds available, if they don't have at least a modest counter I'll be disappointed. Remember, fanboy of one side or another, be glad we have 2 really good companies out there competing for our $$ letting us get far more then what we would have