Where are the EM64T P4s?

[Slaimus]

Apprently Intel has just announced price cuts on these, except where in the world are they for sale?

Link

EDIT: Found one, but none in stock

 

[Slaimus]

3.4Ghz version is now on the site, but still no stock.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Can you say vaporware? (Sorry, couldn't resist )

Are there any EM64T Xeon's available? I figure that once the Xeon's have been available for a few weeks, the P4's will become available.

 

[Algere]

FWIW

 

[Slaimus]

Any info on motherboard and chipset compatibility?

 

[voodoo1694]

I was wondering about this as well. I'm probably going to pick up a 3.4 or 3.6 for my video editing workstation, that is... if the price is right

 

[TekDemon]

Dell has these available in their Precision workstation line...so they're not vaporware, but they're probably getting to the OEMs first as usual, since it takes a while to trickle down retail.
Can't wait though...would hate to buy a cpu then not be able to run the newest OS =p

 

[voodoo1694]

are the EMT64's true 64bit like the Athlon64's or can they just run 64bit apps?

 

[mamisano]

Originally posted by: voodoo1694
are the EMT64's true 64bit like the Athlon64's or can they just run 64bit apps?

They *almost* fully compatible with A64.... In order to use more than 4GB on EMT64, the OS must use software translation....similar to how current 32-bit Xeons use PAE. This will pose a big hit on performance, where the A64 can use direct memory access instead of software translation.

P4-EMT64 adds 64-bit to a 32-bit processor, where K8 was designed from the beginning to 64bit. Same goes for dual-core, K8 was designed from the beginning to progress to dual-core.