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To: MeDroogies who wrote (474)	5/20/2002 12:04:44 PM
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From John F. Dowd on the intel thread: hardwarecentral.com ...With a quad-pumped 133MHz rather than 100MHz bus, the new Pentium 4s -- there are 2.26GHz ($423) and 2.4GHz ($562) versions as well as the 2.53GHz -- require a new system chipset. Intel has introduced one in the i850E ($37), which like its i850 predecessor works with RDRAM instead of DDR or SDRAM memory -- and oddly enough, doesn't officially support the faster new PC1066 RDRAM, just the PC800 that the Pentium 4 has used since its debut. Enthusiasts look forward to PC1066 certification, and even more so to DDR compatibility, from additional Intel chipsets expected presently. All three of the new Pentium 4s are Socket 478 "Northwood" models, with 0.13-micron process design and 512K of Level 2 cache. Intel hopes they will prod PC buyers and IT managers to trade in what it calls "today's installed base," mostly desktops running at 500MHz or below; according to the chipmaker, a Pentium 4/2.53 system will give those users roughly five times the office application or MPEG-4 video editing performance and almost seven times the frame rate in popular 3D games