Replies to post #14105 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[The Duke of URL]

Interesting bit from the article:

"One ought to recall a few years back when Intel was stuck at 1GHz with the PIII. It stuck to its prices, AMD put out much faster processors, but it was AMD Thunderbird prices that ended up crashing and burning.

Can Intel repeat the feat? Will CPU prices in 2005 stay fairly steady, with AMD trying to undercut Intel by just a bit? Or will Intel not be able to maintain price stability for its products?"

And then this from Ed:

"The AMD Price Cut?
Ed Stroligo - 11/7/04

If you look at Pricewatch, you'll see that the prices of the 90nm Athlon 64s are down from what they were yesterday. In the case of the Athlon 64 3000+, what was $163 yesterday is $150 today, with somewhat bigger cuts for the higher-rated models.

Is this the price cut we mentioned the other day?"

[wbmw]

Interesting Dothan overclocking results

DFI has a new Pentium M motherboard. Here are the results for the popular Doom3 video game.



http://www.dfi.com.tw/Press/press_header_content_us.jsp?PAGE_TYPE=US&TITLE_ID=4652&LINKED_UR...

I had no idea Dothan could overclock that high. 2.8GHz is worth 40%, and it also shows the result of a ~533MT/s FSB.

Not only that, but it also outperforms a 2.4GHz Athlon 64 4000+ by >10%.

I think it would be interesting to test the power dissipation of a 2.8GHz Dothan. Seems likely that it would be well below Athlon 64, even at that frequency.