Intel Pentium 5

Impossible. They can't do that.
It's just rumours. Too many people have different needs.
It's like saying that all new houses will be built with the same number of bedrooms...

Not impossible. I have a inside source. Decides, if you buy this chip with 2 gigs of DDR 3600 RAM on the chip, what more do you need? Also heard that Microso*t is developing a special OS just for this chip.

An inside source, eh? The last I heard, the Pentium5 was code-named Prescott, but what do I know?

Prescott's just the new P4 core, isn't it?

well I think it is but alot of my friends just call it the pentium 5 for lack of a better name until they actually name it. I don't think it will be a Pentium though.

I hate Intel anyway. I run AMD. The Athlon beats the P4 up and down in benchmarks. I just wanted to hear everyones thoughts on a new chip.

heres the info on 'Prescott' at least according to zdnet
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-985156.html

Well, if you're talking about Prescott - it's looking like it'll be a nice little chip. 1 MB L2 cache, 800Mhz bus, enhanced hyperthreading ability to possibly scale to 4-5Ghz.

It's still just a standard x86 processor that uses existing OSes and all that though.

Still, Intel's gotten back into the position of making AMD play one heck of a job of catch up.

INTEL still sucks in benchmark compared to a AMD or even a G4

Erm... coming to this as an AMD user, and fan, I have to say: "Fraid not."

http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/cpu_charts-21.html#benchmarks_under_windows_xp

I AM A AMD USER AND A FAN! I have a duron machine and I am getting a athlon XP w/barton core 3000+ processor as soon as my taxes come back

FYI, Intel's P4 3.06Ghz chip beats AMD Athalon XP 2800+ in almost every single benchmark category out there. However, I'm sure most of you have heard about the Athalon64, this is gonna topple Intel, kinda how ATI beat nVidia with their new Radeon 9700. It's a 64-bit chip with backwards-compatability with 32-bit code. Intel will not be able to beat AMD if they release the P5 as a 32-bit chip. Computing has evolved...

kona, are you talking about Intel's LaGrande (TCPA) and Microsoft's Palladium? (now renamed NGSCB: Next-Generation Secure Computing Base)
If yes, then it's completely different.

Read Anderson's controversial article, although some say he is misinformed : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
And this article that I found a little more objective: http://wintermute.homelinux.org/miscelanea/TCPA%20Security.txt

Of just search "LaGrande TCPA Palladium" on Google.

"It's a 64-bit chip with backwards-compatability with 32-bit code"

Which honestly, to 90%+ of the computer users out there is not going to make the least lick of difference, really.

64 bit computing is /not/ some great speed increase over 32 bit computing for every day use. The big draw of it is the increased amount of accessable memory - which is one of the reasons you're seeing Intel's IA-64 marketed only in the server arena.

Maybe I have been misinformed and I am talking out my a**. Anyways, thanks for the info.

Uhmmmmmmmmm

"Code named Pentium 5"????????? LMAO!

Hmm. Pentium 1, 2, 3 and 4...and if a 5 follows (more than likely)... /me doesn't that being named Pentium 5 will be much of a surprise and hardly a 'code name' [he-he].

Correctomundo...

/me doesn't think that being named Pentium 5 will be much of a surprise and hardly a 'code name'

About processor speed: Unless one does some heavy 3D rendering or play the latest 3D games, processor speed today don't matter much anymore anyway.
Once you passed 1.4, 1.8 Gigs or so, more than that is hardly noticeable. Word won't open faster, your emails won't get sent faster, Photoshop won't open or save images faster neither.
You know. When it takes 2 seconds to accomplish a task, do you really notice it if your faster processor now takes 1.5 seconds instead?

Yes - the law of Diminishing Returns is very much alive and well in the world of computers.

Sorry... not code named pentium 5 just called that for lack of a better name.

Hey Husipoo I noticed you said the Athlon XP 2800, and not the 3000 with the barton core... do some research and then retype your message.

im an AMD user just over the sheer price u can ge t an amd chip for almost half the price of an intel chip, i find that the bords are also cheaper to go with them.

If u ever read anything about when ddr ram came out u will notice that CPUs are upgrading at such a fast rate the technology around it has no way of keeping up with it. im stick with my 1.5 ghz AMD. i do some heavy rendering but it pretty much all i need.

AMD is cheaper than most out there. I bought my Processor and my Board for about $89 dollars. Starting price in my neck of the woods for a Intel P4 board and Processor: $287 dollars. AMD RULES! (I used to have a Celeron 2 Gig with board.. Had more problems with that thing then I ever have had with my AMD setup.)

64 bit won't make much of a difference until there's software built (not recompiled) to take advantage of it. I'd say it'll be a couple years before photoshop 9.0 64bit comes out.... But when it happens, all you skinners out there will be able to make twice as many skins in half the time!!! Heeehawwww

can't wait for the molecular ram and drives will follow

seriously...

http://microscope.fsu.edu/chipshots/ram/index.html