P4 3.06 in nz

[PC BOB]

One friday night I was looking around the net and came upon this:


Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz Northwood CPU
New 3060Mhz Intel Pentium4 Northwood CPU, 0.13-micron Core, 512k L2 Cache, Offical 533Mhz FSB Version, Retail Packing with Heatsink/Fan Incuded.


$ 1545.00 + GST [ 1738.13 ]


Im sure thats a lie because I dident Northwoods were going to go this high, and I dident evan think that they have released the 3.06ghz yet......:rolleyes:


Or am I completely wrong?

[Antallica]

From Styles.....

Pentium 4 3.06 GHZ Northwood Socket 478 533FSB 512K cache - No price, just asking potential buyer to email him. I think there was a price at some stage but I think he removed it.

If he says it exists......... it exists.

[PC BOB]

Must of come out when I was on Holiday then........:mad:

Just relised that others are advertising it too.........

[swiftynz]

it certainly exists... just not yet. the latest model on intel's website is the P4 2.80ghz, so why some seller's are advertising them i have no idea. probably just following on from what the wholesalers are saying. :confused:
/edit:
from intel.com
Now at 2.80 GHz, the next evolutionary step for desktop processor technology.

[H2gO]

Sept 9th is a day to bookmark

Most retailers are endeavouring to quit existing stock before hand
as they realise the current P4's Northwoods will be "old hat" there after


case in point
e-one selling Intel Pentium 4 2.4A GHz (Socket 478, FSB533) $468 + GST

;)

if you're in the P4 market you might want to hold off your purchase

[kaz]

Originally posted by H2gO
Sept 9th is a day to bookmark

Most retailers are endeavouring to quit existing stock before hand
as they realise the current P4's Northwoods will be "old hat" there after


case in point
e-one selling Intel Pentium 4 2.4A GHz (Socket 478, FSB533) $468 + GST

;)

if you're in the P4 market you might want to hold off your purchase


check out the price of the p4 2.53 dude on pp

it dropped from 1400 to 660 if i remmeber :D

[H2gO]

ah
Roger that - 661.50 *and falling - hopefully*

cheers

;)

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

:eek:

Me think I might have to go back to Intel for my next round of upgrades if this fall pans out.

[icedemon32]

Its bull****

the Northwood series ends at 2.80Ghz-2.9Ghz(cant remember) and the new series starts at 3.0Ghz and goes to about 4.5Ghz..there not due to release in the US until mid next year

[Tiggerz]

Originally posted by icedemon32
Its bull****

the Northwood series ends at 2.80Ghz-2.9Ghz(cant remember) and the new series starts at 3.0Ghz and goes to about 4.5Ghz..there not due to release in the US until mid next year

Nope, current schedule is some time before dec.. the only thing they havn't absolutely confirmed as wether is will be .13 or .09.

[icedemon32]

OK then, yeah wasnt to sure on the date

you know what there called? i cant remember :confused:

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Tiggerz
Nope, current schedule is some time before dec.. the only thing they havn't absolutely confirmed as wether is will be .13 or .09.

I'm pretty sure 0.09 isn't coming until next year, but 3.0Ghz is coming this year, so I think you're wrong about it being 0.09 Tiggerz.

[Tiggerz]

thats the rub, the last press release I got gave a list of features for it, specially the hyper threading.. But the bit about the .09 vs .13 was written badly and I couldnt figure out which was going to be used.. Email to settle the question has been ignored as per usual..

Guess we shall have to wait and see.

To be honest, dont think we will see it here until the usual feb, march date.

Since the apps that I run are all multi-threaded anyhow, I am oging for a dual xeon setup. The new xeons out also support hyperthreading and i'll be looking at about 15-30% increase in performance over the equive p4. (not to mention price).

The new Supermicro board will be out on 02-Nov with the new Intel Xeon chipset that supports Agp 8x, so I am gunna bung in a parhelia (supposed to be 8x compat) and make a graphics workstation..

Problem with workstation boards tho is coz the chips use 1mb or 2mb cache, dang boards only need DD@266 ram in them.. Not good for overclocking.. I wanted RDRAm PC1200 or something.