The next best thing

[GZFant]

I am curious to know if I should wait or not for the next best thing coming from Intel? When is the Pentium 5 coming out and would it be worth it to wait to build my next computer? I was planning on sitting till Fall '04 but I was wondering when their next big release will be?

Thanks

 

[GZFant]

anyone?? 🙁

 

[DivideBYZero]

Crystal ball in for a service. Come back later.

 

[THUGSROOK]

obviously you are ASSuming that anything new is the next best thing.

 

[BaboonGuy]

man if you can wait that long then by all means go for it. if you ask me today's comps are super fast for the software they run

 

[oldfart]

Lots of new big things on the way. Prescott, Tejas, PCI-X, BTX, ....etc..etc

 

[Sunny129]

are they going to be introducing the Prescott core as a P5, or will it be another P4?

 

[BD231]

Wait till PCI starts to phase out and the new PCI-X picks up, that's the only change coming about soon that's worth much of anything at the moment.

 

[rgreen83]

I thought PCI-X has been around a couple years and the new thing called PCI Express was different? i.e. parallel vs. serial interconnect like SATA150

The P5 name will probably accompany the soon-coming 775 LGA socket whether it is with prescott or tejas core.

 

[GZFant]

I guess the main focus of my questino since its the CPU section is when is the next Intel Processor coming out and do you think its worth the wait?

 

[SickBeast]

0.09 prescott is next, if you have money to burn. it may be called p5, but i don't think anyone here could tell you for sure.