1.6GHz and 1.8GHz Northwoods now available

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After hearing the complaints from people who simply do not want to spend over $300 on a processor...

There are now 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz versions of the Northwood available. These have the same kind and amount of cache (512MB) as the 2.0GHz and 2.2GHz versions, but are simply clocked slower to sell at a lower price point. They should overclock extremely well as they are really being underclocked when sold at these speeds.

Thusfar they have not made their way on to PriceWatch, but they are at a few vendors, including <A HREF="http://store.yahoo.com/upsource/cpus-pentium-4--socket-478-.html" target="_new">this</A> one, selling at about the same price as the Willamette versions. After prices on these stabilize in a week or two we will have to take a look at the price/performance ratio of these lower speed processors. I would not be surprised to find 1.6GHz Northwood Pentium 4 processors that will overclock to speeds nearly as high as the 2GHz version.

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Hey that's great Ray, glad to see some P4s that will allow us to know how they perform at these speeds. Of course it'll be of interest to first test, then OC them to the best. At least they will be at a decent price for OCing.

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INTEL IS LIMITING THE PRODUCTION OF THOSE PARTS JUIN, WTF DOES YOUR POST HAVE TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE!

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[evil grin]I bet I could overclock the bejesus out of them with my water cooler.[/evil grin]

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>I would not be surprised to find 1.6GHz Northwood Pentium
>4 processors that will overclock to speeds nearly as high
>as the 2GHz version.

Im pretty sure the cpu could.. but wouldnt you have unmanageble high pci and agp multipliers if you try to overclock a 1.6 Ghz P4 to 2.2+ ? Just a question.. too bad there is no multiplier pencil trick for these NW babies..


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i wonder if they will beat AMD XP 1600+ and 1800+, it will be nice to the benchmarks of NW1.6 and 1.8 against XP's 1600+ and 1800+ based on DDR ram.

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w00t! Thanks for the hard to find link, Raystonn.

Now I'm not sure whether I should wait for Thoroughbred, or buy a Northwood before :frown:

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TRANSLATION

I think this is what he is trying to say.

He doesn't understand why intel is going to limit the production of their 1.6, 1.8 chip because the .13 micron is half the size and that means their should be alot more of them.

I could be wrong...
 
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The article explains why they are limiting production (if i recall correctly). His comment made no sense and was totally off topic.

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<b><A HREF="http://www.resellerratings.com/cgi-bin/reseller/vendone.cgi?UpgradeSource" target="_new"><font color=red>Its rating</A></b></font color=red>. I would wait for a little while till other places have them.

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Good call. I wouldn't buy from them anyway, but thanks.

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"INTEL IS LIMITING THE PRODUCTION OF THOSE PARTS JUIN, WTF DOES YOUR POST HAVE TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE!"

dude, I can see the veins pop out of your forehead(shape of an L) the foam coming out of your mouth hitting your monitor, LOL! AMDmongrel belligerent life must be horrible...suggest you go for a series of rabie shots.

Q:what does the Inquierer have to do with what Intel is doing?

A:Absolutely Nothing.


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Oh yes, the ever so accurate Inquirer. These lower clocked Northwoods are just going to be so much more expensive than their Willamette counterparts. Oh wait... will you look at that. They are about the same price at that link. Hmmm. Say, these Inquirer guys would not happen to be the same ones that quoted the much higher prices for the initial release of the 2GHz and 2.2GHz Northwoods, would they? Hmmm.

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Im pretty sure the cpu could.. but wouldnt you have unmanageble high pci and agp multipliers if you try to overclock a 1.6 Ghz P4 to 2.2+ ? Just a question.. too bad there is no multiplier pencil trick for these NW babies..
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Multiplier tricks are not needed for Intel-based systems. Go grab an Abit TH7II motherboard. You can lock the PCI/AGP at 33/66, regardless of the FSB setting. You can also set the memory multiplier down from 4x to 3x, allowing you to effectively overclock the processor by 33% on a 533MHz FSB without overclocking the memory, AGP, or PCI. Moving past the 533MHz FSB (or flipping back up to a 4x memory multiplier) will start overclocking the memory, but the AGP and PCI will still remain fixed at their standard speeds.

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Oh yes, the ever so accurate Inquirer. These lower clocked Northwoods are just going to be so much more expensive than their Willamette counterparts. Oh wait... will you look at that. They are about the same price at that link. Hmmm. Say, these Inquirer guys would not happen to be the same ones that quoted the much higher prices for the initial release of the 2GHz and 2.2GHz Northwoods, would they? Hmmm.
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Umm, the register did not say they would be overpriced, they said they would be in short supply.

Perhaps you should read the articles better before making sarcastic comments?

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I think this is what (Juin) is trying to say.

He doesn't understand why intel is going to limit the production of their 1.6, 1.8 chip because the .13 micron is half the size and that means their should be alot more of them.

I could be wrong...
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Juin is like R2D2 ... he needs a C3PO by his side constantly so the rest of us can understand what the hell he is trying to say.


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INTEL IS LIMITING THE PRODUCTION OF THOSE PARTS JUIN, WTF DOES YOUR POST HAVE TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE
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sorry matisaro, unlike amd, intel can afford to sell things cheaper even if they are at a lower volume.. and if the chips are simply clocked lower, they could come off the same production line as the higher clocked chips.

Now run along and turn caps lock off little troll

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Do you just follow Matisaro around to call him a troll whenever he says something? It sure seems like it and it's getting pretty irritating. You, of all people, should not be calling anyone a troll. I'm sure we can dig up some of your finer moments here on the boards if necessary.

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Juin is like R2D2 ... he needs a C3PO by his side constantly so the rest of us can understand what the hell he is trying to say.
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OMG ROFLMAO.....Make that the sig of the week!!

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Umm, the register did not say they would be overpriced, they said they would be in short supply.
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And they are not... These new reports are just as accurate as the reports on the release price of the Northwoods. (i.e. They are completely wrong.)

-Raystonn


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I would love to see that up top. Right after "Hi mom!" :wink:

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