Yousuf... others... anybody understand this article about the new Dothan P4?

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http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.html?i=2048

"As the topic suggests, 1066FSB has been added to the Q3 roadmap, but for
only two processors; the 3.46GHz P4EE and the 3.73GHz Prescott Pentium 4."
....
"Not only does the Prescott receive an extra boost in FSB, but Intel has
slated a new increase in cache size for the Pentium 4 (not P4EE) family. The
first new processor (Intel 720) will carry a 2MB L2 cache!"


It then states below in the article...

"You may notice the Intel 720 is listed in the 7xx family of processors and
that these processors all share something in common; Banias or Dothan core.
"

How can a Prescott processor have a Dothan core? Am I getting something
confused or what? It's 3.73 GHz with a Dothan core?
 
Judd said:
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.html?i=2048

"As the topic suggests, 1066FSB has been added to the Q3 roadmap, but for
only two processors; the 3.46GHz P4EE and the 3.73GHz Prescott Pentium 4."
...
"Not only does the Prescott receive an extra boost in FSB, but Intel has
slated a new increase in cache size for the Pentium 4 (not P4EE) family. The
first new processor (Intel 720) will carry a 2MB L2 cache!"


It then states below in the article...

"You may notice the Intel 720 is listed in the 7xx family of processors and
that these processors all share something in common; Banias or Dothan core.
"

How can a Prescott processor have a Dothan core? Am I getting something
confused or what? It's 3.73 GHz with a Dothan core?
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Yeah, I didn't quite understand that either.
 
Judd said:
"You may notice the Intel 720 is listed in the 7xx family of
processors and that these processors all share something in common;
Banias or Dothan core. "

How can a Prescott processor have a Dothan core? Am I getting
something confused or what? It's 3.73 GHz with a Dothan core?
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Yeah, you and me both. OMG, what a mess this model numbering system is that
Intel came up with. I thought I could figure it out, but then you see things
like this happen, and then everything just goes out the window.

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf said:
Yeah, you and me both. OMG, what a mess this model numbering system is that
Intel came up with. I thought I could figure it out, but then you see things
like this happen, and then everything just goes out the window.

Yousuf Khan
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It's even worse than that. Take a look at the Celeron table. If people
are supposed to understand just one thing, "bigger model number equals
better buy" then everyone wanting the best Celeron will get the 1GHz ULV
model instead of the 1.5GHz model. This model number system is moronic
and designed exclusively to confuse as many people as much as possible.

Alex
 
It's even worse than that. Take a look at the Celeron table. If people
are supposed to understand just one thing, "bigger model number equals
better buy" then everyone wanting the best Celeron will get the 1GHz ULV
model instead of the 1.5GHz model. This model number system is moronic
and designed exclusively to confuse as many people as much as possible.

Alex
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The ULV model is much faster than the 1.5Ghz on a IPC count. remember its
not all MHZ anymore.
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips John Llort said:
The ULV model is much faster than the 1.5Ghz on a IPC count. remember its
not all MHZ anymore.
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Even with the same core? Certainly with the present (Banias) Pentium-M
core, the ULV model has the exact same IPC as the regular non-ULV model.
 
Nate said:
Even with the same core? Certainly with the present (Banias)
Pentium-M core, the ULV model has the exact same IPC as the regular
non-ULV model.
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Nate,

Spell John's name backwards...
 
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