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Except that it is unlikely any future generation cpu will be pin compatible
with LGA775. It will probably have a faster FSB than your board supports.
Socket 423 didn't last very long. We don't even know if the 915/925 chipsets
will be compatible with dual core processors. Basically what intel has
announced is that they are going to increase performance by increasing
on-die cache and by developing dual core processors. It seems that they have
finally come to realize that Ghz isn't everything. They had to increase the
number of stages in the pipeline of the Prescott core to ramp up the clock
speed. The result was a cpu that clock for clock is slower than a Northwood
core, even though the Prescott has twice the L2 cache. Also the 3.8Ghz P4
has a 1200Mhz clock speed advantage over the Athlon 64 4000+, yet in almost
every benchmark the A64 is faster. I think Intel has realized that IPC is
more important than Ghz. They got it right with the Pentium M. That is a
sweet processor with high IPC. I wish they would make a desktop version.
"Manuel Fischer" <manuelfischer@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:30gmejF2us6uvU1@uni-berlin.de...
> "Tweek" schrieb:
>
>> Intel canceled the 4Ghz P4, 3.8Ghz is the fastes you will be able to get.
>
> Yes, I know (as you see in my following posts if you read it).
>
> Intel cancelled the Pentium _4_ with 4 GHz. Intel does not cancel
> any other Pentium generation which will go over 4 GHz. And if this
> CPU (however it is called) has a 775 connection, it will fit in the
> XPS Gen 3.
>
> Regards,
> Manuel