Why are Northwoods more expensive than Prescotts?

[The Pentium Guy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116201 - Prescott. $215
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116164 - Northwood. $280

I realize that prescotts are incredibly hotter (I have a northwood that runs at VCore 1.33, and idles at LOW temps), but Northwoods are older and slower.

What's with the price difference?

-TPG

 

[Hanpan]

Supply and demand. Northwoods are in less supply and there are fewer in the channel.

 

[Dman877]

At the same frequency, I'd take a northwood over a prescot any day. Like hanpan said, supply and demand. Intel isn't making northwoods any more but since people still want them, the price goes up.

 

[apoppin]

when did Intel shut the production down and what are the last stepping?

how are the last NWs as O/Cers? . . . my 2.80c can "only" hit 3.31Ghz at default vcore . . .

. . . i'd like to get a NW 'upgrade' that can get closer to 4.0 Ghz as my last non-64 CPU.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116201 - Prescott. $215
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116164 - Northwood. $280

I realize that prescotts are incredibly hotter (I have a northwood that runs at VCore 1.33, and idles at LOW temps), but Northwoods are older and slower.

What's with the price difference?

-TPG

Like the others said, they are no longer made, so there is a limited supply. Just like SDRAM, it hasn't been made in a long time, so the prices on it are pretty rediculous.
As for the northwood being slower, in a lot of cases it's faster than a higher clocked prescott. My 3.06 northwood @3.45ghz actualy beats my 3.4ghz prescott @3.82ghz in some things such as rendering and mp3 encoding, but the prescott does win by a good margine in others like video encoding, and superPI. My same prescott at the same clockspeed as my northwood(3.45ghz) gets creamated by the northwood in almost everything.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Assuming the same buss speed the prescott starts performing better than the northwood around 3.4ghz, around 3.2 they perform about the same w/ northwood having a slight edge and below that Northwood pretty much crushes Prescott, Anandtech did an article about how the prescott scales vs. northwood quite awhile back, check it out for more info.

 

[qbackin]

Northwood core the best cpu for p4 IMO.
Most fun to play with, lots of headroom. Excellent temps @ very nice speeds.

 

[uOpt]

Less power consumption and less picky about P4-optimizes code.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
Assuming the same buss speed the prescott starts performing better than the northwood around 3.4ghz, around 3.2 they perform about the same w/ northwood having a slight edge and below that Northwood pretty much crushes Prescott, Anandtech did an article about how the prescott scales vs. northwood quite awhile back, check it out for more info.

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