Intel Processors

NoFormz · 25th Dec 2005, 01:26 AM

Greetings,

I'm getting kinda confused with the many processors available out there. I'm having some problems understanding the Intel Pentium 4 processors' chart (the sticky)

. What are the NOrthwood and Prescott thingy? And what are the Smithfield and Presler? Is there any detailed articles regarding these??

Thanks

SAMSAMHA · 25th Dec 2005, 03:14 AM

they are just names given for each type of processor. pentium 4 has goen through various stages of updates through it's like 3 years of life, from reducing the core size or differnet amount of cache included to differnet features added(such as emt64, etc).

NoFormz · 25th Dec 2005, 09:16 AM

So it's not that important huh? The numbers instead, eg. 6xx 5xx that really needs more attention?

goldfries · 3rd Jan 2006, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by NoFormz

So it's not that important huh? The numbers instead, eg. 6xx 5xx that really needs more attention?

yes. codenames of the processors are just to identify the variants. you could live without knowing those names.

luqman · 4th Jan 2006, 06:25 AM

id say wats more important is if it is A RISC or CISC

jamotto · 4th Jan 2006, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by luqman

id say wats more important is if it is A RISC or CISC

If I'm not mistaken both AMD and Intel processors are all RISC based.

ZuePhok · 4th Jan 2006, 06:22 PM

nope. they are hybrids (of both)

jamotto · 4th Jan 2006, 07:40 PM

The wikipedia ends with this.

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The term, like its antonym RISC, has become less meaningful with the continued evolution of both CISC and RISC designs and implementations. Modern "CISC" CPUs, such as recent x86 designs like the Pentium 4, whilst they usually support every instruction that their predecessors did, are designed to work most efficiently with a subset of instructions more resembling a typical "RISC" instruction set. Indeed, many CISC CPUs (such as modern x86 processors from both Intel and AMD) decode many x86 instructions into a series of smaller internal "micro-operations" that are then executed internally by the processor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISC

luqman · 5th Jan 2006, 07:53 AM

AMD is just an exact copy of intel the have little differences. back in the days AMD became popular because it was exactly intel except it was cheaper so ppl bought more of it.

so AMD is not an actual self company like intel or motorola (pretty old) or IBM

aKho · 5th Jan 2006, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by luqman

AMD is just an exact copy of intel the have little differences. back in the days AMD became popular because it was exactly intel except it was cheaper so ppl bought more of it.

so AMD is not an actual self company like intel or motorola (pretty old) or IBM

i don't think AMD is exactly Intel.. are u speaking about the company or their chips?

25th Dec 2005, 01:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
NoFormz Warming up Join Date: 25 May 2005 Location: Malaysia Posts: 114 Reputation: 19 Rep Power: 5	Intel Processors Greetings, I'm getting kinda confused with the many processors available out there. I'm having some problems understanding the Intel Pentium 4 processors' chart (the sticky) . What are the NOrthwood and Prescott thingy? And what are the Smithfield and Presler? Is there any detailed articles regarding these?? Thanks

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luqman Getting there Join Date: 19 Dec 2005 Location: in here front of my media center '05 Posts: 172 Reputation: -76 Rep Power: 0	hmm id say wats more important is if it is A RISC or CISC __________________ [IMG]http://www.180networks.com/images/imagehere1.jpg *sig removed by Admin. Please conform to our sig guidlines here Mr Pro Network Engineer.. http://forums.rojakpot.com/showthread.php?t=2059

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ZuePhok Hold me back! I can't stop posting!!! Join Date: 16 Dec 2002 Location: Floating Island Of Mandango Posts: 8,810 Reputation: 3294 Rep Power: 48	nope. they are hybrids (of both) __________________ my motto: poison first, think later.

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