HI X-BITLABS


WHEN COMES THE PENTIUM 4 3.46GHZ OR 3.73GHZ PRESCOTT 1066MHZ OUT AT BELGIUM ?


NEW PC :

INTEL PENTIUM 4 3.46GHZ OR 3.73 GHZ PRESCOTT 1066MHZ 2MB L2 CACHE SOCKET LGA775

1 GB CONSAIR DDR2-667

MAXTOR DIAMONDMAX PLUS 10 300GB 7.200RPM S-ATA/150

MSI 925XE PAT SUPER POWER LGA775 PLATFORM PCI-EXPRESS x16

MSI GEFORCE 6800 ULTRA 512MB ( NV48 ) PCI-XPRESS x16

IIYAMA PROLITE E511S-B ( 20'' INCH - 16MS )

PLEXTOR CD-REWRITER 52x32x52x ( T3 )

PLEXTOR DUAL-LAYER DVD-REWRITER 16x

CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO

CREATIVE GIGAWORKS S750 THX 7.1 SPEAKERS

CREATIVE DDTS-100 DECODER

X-ALIEN XPCASES ( 500WATT PSU )


GOOD OR BAD ?


DAISY

HI X-BITLABS



NEW PC :


INTEL PENTIUM 4 3.46GHZ PRESCOTT 1066MHZ 2MB L2 CACHE SOCKET LGA775 OR INTEL PENTIUM 3.2GHZ NORTHWOOD LGA775 0.13 MICRON ?


DAISY

NOT that the 775 socket with all its OC issues would be selling like lead balloons, NO, of course not...

So we can get 3.46 1066 bus, but what about 64bit? Oh right, that doesn't work yet on that cpu. Now the extremes are certainly rather quick, but what a stumbling act this year from Intel.


Some of the best mfg in the world and they can't manage to get the Prescott cool enough to ramp up

OC on the 925 chipset and even if you get past the lock, Pci-e and SATA clocks go bonkers

64bit ability that they don't even dare show the world yet (means it's robably BAD!)

NO clear roadmap of what you might be able to ever use in the future with the 775 socket - can you say dead end?

Gaming and office performance (both ends of the spectrum) are inferior to the competition on even the fastest of Intel's cpu's. They want you to believe that at high res its all even, but underneath the Intel solution is getting less done, which in turn means as games get more complex, the Intel solution gets old fast.

And server chipsets (remember the reliable part of Intel?) that don't work, admit they don't work, and they are going to SELL ANYWAY!

Almost 9 months later, there is no clear path to fixing any of this. Can you imagine how much we'd be laughing if they were still promising Tejas? "Don't worry, they're big, they'll come back". Yeah I hear that, but I'm not seeing any of it. Intel has turned a reasonable business into one giant clusterf...

Wonder how long it'll take them to get it together, a year? two?

Not to worry, Intel CEO Craig Barrett has stepped in to "fix" Intel's current problems! :)

DAISY, you should be posting all that in the forums...Not here!