AT News Update: Socket 775 Processor Names

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• ViRGE - Thursday, April 8, 2004 - link

  Someone mind telling me what's going on with the Pentium-M ULV chips? They're giving the 1.1ghz/1MB PM-ULV a rating of 718, putting it ahead of the 1.5ghz/2MB PM, puting the 1.4ghz/2MB PM-LV ahead of the 1.6ghz/2MB PM, and other wierd things. The last digit makes sense(8=ULV, 3=LV, 0/5=normal), but the whole PM rankings seem sketchy at best.

• KristopherKubicki - Thursday, April 8, 2004 - link

  Pumpkinierre, latency will suffer but thats the plan. The FSB is definitely 800MHz with DDR2-533 and DDR2-667 eventually.
  
  Kristopher

• Pumpkinierre - Thursday, April 8, 2004 - link

  On the new naming posting:
  
  The Pentium 3.8 and 4.0 are still 800 MHz. But these are supposed to be socket T with new mobos supporting DDR2. The only production DDR2 I've heard of is 533 which if run synchronously would quad pump at 1066MHz. So if the table is true, you'll have to underclock the DDR2 at DDR400 or asynchronously-not the best for performance. Else, socket T/Grantsdale/Alderwood is all a myth and Intel is sticking to Sckt478/i8x5.
  

• amdfanboy - Thursday, April 1, 2004 - link

  All I can say is why ?

• stephenbrooks - Thursday, April 1, 2004 - link

  Am I the only one who's noticed the peculiar gap in the Celeron lineup - i.e. where's the 2.93GHz part? I think Intel skipped that one because nobody wants to buy something that's "just under" 3GHz :)

• THEonlyRightguard - Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - link

  well ,instead of the xp 2800+, will they say the athlon xp 760+ ? it seems to me its a way to try and discredit comparison between amd and intel.

• TrogdorJW - Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - link

  16 - But do you actually trust the sales people to know what they're talking about? I figure the chance of getting an honest, intelligent salesperson is about 50-50 these days, and only 25-75 if you go to a large store like Frys, CompUSA, Best Buy, etc. With these model numbers from both camps, computer salespeople are likely to become as bad as car salespeople. They'll just say whatever it takes to close the deal. :p
  
  Sure, technophiles like most of the AT readers (looking away from CRAM) can be trusted to know what's good and what's not. For the common man, though, I don't know that it really matters. Computer performance really only matters now if you want to play games, do 3D modelling, or work on video content. For almost everything else, 2 GHz is currently fast enough and will remain so for the next two years at least. For businesses, even 1 GHz is usually fast enough.
  
  Ignorance is bliss, they say, and I think there are a lot of people out there that prefer ignorance when it comes to computers.

• Pumpkinierre - Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - link

  The sales people are just going to quote the actual megahertz speed anyway, no matter the name or model no., as they do now for a-64/XP often at the buyer's request.
  

• KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - link

  SDA: A man can dream,... :-p
  
  Check out what i wrote a few weeks ago:
  http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1994
  
  Kristopher

• SDA - Wednesday, March 31, 2004 - link

  Heh, "pick your battles wisely," says KristopherKubicki to CRAMITPAL. Sorry, Kris, but I don't think this is one you can take down with logic.
  
  What's AMD going to do about this, I wonder...? There'll be nothing to have Joe Consumer compare the XXXX+ to!