Intel 660 3.6Ghz & 3.72 Extreme Edition 64Bit P4 Processor

**MIG-31** · Mar 1, 2005, 11:39 AM

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The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 1, 2005, 01:04 PM

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Intel 660 3.6Ghz & 3.72 Extreme Edition 64Bit P4 Preoccessor

For more than three decades, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel's mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy.
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I'm not saying anything!

Zardon · Mar 1, 2005, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

I'm not saying anything!

Cool, now we have AMD joining your ATI fetishes

Falstaff · Mar 1, 2005, 01:47 PM

When will Intel give up on the Ghz bandwagon...sigh.......(never)....lol

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 1, 2005, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

Cool, now we have AMD joining your ATI fetishes

ROFL!

I was talking about the spelling! not the review or CPU's

Zardon · Mar 1, 2005, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

I was talking about the spelling!

ok, now its my turn not to say anything

**MIG-31** · Mar 1, 2005, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

ROFL!

I was talking about the spelling! not the review or CPU's

OOPS......

CDsDontBurn · Mar 1, 2005, 05:43 PM

lol.....you guys are funny

How lame tho, you gotta flash the BIOS in order for the system to be able to support 64bit extensions? But w/these new intel 64bit chips, what's the difference between the p4E and the p4EE? Both chips have 2Mb L2 cache, does the p4EE still have the 2Mb L3 cache? It was never mentioned in the review (at least not that i saw).

Zardon · Mar 1, 2005, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

lol.....you guys are funny

How lame tho, you gotta flash the BIOS in order for the system to be able to support 64bit extensions? But w/these new intel 64bit chips, what's the difference between the p4E and the p4EE? Both chips have 2Mb L2 cache, does the p4EE still have the 2Mb L3 cache? It was never mentioned in the review (at least not that i saw).

You dont always have to flash the bios, depends on the mobo you are using. The Asus P5AD2-E works fine with windows 64 as ive been testing it for the last week.

The (new) P4E and P4EE are both based on the new 0.09 prescott core (which runs at 1.4-1.45 volts and ALOT cooler) but the EE has 2 meg of level 2 cache whereas the standard chips have only 1 meg. There are other differences but these are the largest. There is no longer any level 3 cache, its all level 2, the reason for this is level 2 cache is faster than level 3 as you will see if you run an app such as memtest via dos, it gives rough throughput figures when testing. Of course the prescott core on the new EE isnt as powerful as the older gallatin core clock for clock due to the deeper pipes, but its still quite decent especially with the massive room on overclocking (ive had this one to 4.95ghz on the new vapochill).

~~Vasot~~ · Mar 1, 2005, 05:54 PM

As for gaming P4 SUCKS unfortunately
I do not think that these P4 660 series really worth their money

But if you care about Media editing etc Pentium4 Rocks

Also the difference to 2MB L2 from older versions with less cache is small in performance as i see

The P4 660 seems Nothing Special
and the Extreme Edition version is even more worse

CDsDontBurn · Mar 1, 2005, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

You dont always have to flash the bios, depends on the mobo you are using. The Asus P5AD2-E works fine with windows 64 as ive been testing it for the last week.

The (new) P4E and P4EE are both based on the new 0.09 prescott core (which runs at 1.4-1.45 volts and ALOT cooler) but the EE has 2 meg of level 2 cache whereas the standard chips have only 1 meg. There are other differences but these are the largest. There is no longer any level 3 cache, its all level 2, the reason for this is level 2 cache is faster than level 3 as you will see if you run an app such as memtest via dos, it gives rough throughput figures when testing. Of course the prescott core on the new EE isnt as powerful as the older gallatin core clock for clock due to the deeper pipes, but its still quite decent especially with the massive room on overclocking (ive had this one to 4.95ghz on the new vapochill).

yea, i read that in the review that it runs a little bit cooler than the 478 p4E. I didn't see anything regarding the L1 cache though, is that still 128k? To me the new 6xx series chips seem alot more promising than the previous 5xx series.

Zardon · Mar 1, 2005, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

yea, i read that in the review that it runs a little bit cooler than the 478 p4E. I didn't see anything regarding the L1 cache though, is that still 128k?

I think you might have your facts a little messed up here.

Anyway, the level 1 cache is only 16k. I think they should have ran with 32k like the dothans, however they didnt.

CDsDontBurn · Mar 1, 2005, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

I think you might have your facts a little messed up here.

Anyway, the level 1 cache is only 16k. I think they should have ran with 32k like the dothans, however they didnt.

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~~Vasot~~ Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GREECE Posts: 369 Rep Power: 0	As for gaming P4 SUCKS unfortunately I do not think that these P4 660 series really worth their money But if you care about Media editing etc Pentium4 Rocks Also the difference to 2MB L2 from older versions with less cache is small in performance as i see The P4 660 seems Nothing Special and the Extreme Edition version is even more worse