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It does indeed but it blocks most lagit sites aswell thats what get annoying and yip iv had a look at wikipedia but cant find much on the cpu stats  like bus sizez cache etc if u look at the previous attatchment youll see what im after

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Originally posted by Jhrono
Intel's "great" processor on the last years was Pentinum IV.. Mainly, it was a heat-spreader, with few overclock'ability and also a slow performer.. Intel maintained this processor for 3 or 4 years, waiting for the big fish (I guess..)

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The Pentium IV is not really one processor, the core has been completely redesigned several times, through NetBurst, Willamette, Northwood, Prescott and Cedar Mill.

Other CPUs you might want to look into if you're interested in CPU technology are the DEC Alpha [They aren't making them after this year ], Sun SPARC (It's CRAPS backwards! Really!), various ARM processors, IBM Power, PowerPC [used in some Macs + PSX/PS2], Motorola 68k based CPUs, and check out the CELL, too, very interesting. There are some rare CPUs still being used as well, such as the CPUs in the CRAY X1E.

I'm not a huge fan of the RISC thing, I really like vector processors. However, they just don't exist anymore, not in any real scale. You can't call the SIMD on the Pentiums (>3) vector, really, unless you're dealing with 32 or 16 bit floats.

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Originally posted by Verte
The Pentium IV is not really one processor, the core has been completely redesigned several times, through NetBurst, Willamette, Northwood, Prescott and Cedar Mill

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Prescott being the greatest toaster ever and cedar mill the best clocker.. I only said that because all revisions follow the same 'gender'

In C2D you also have Allendale, Conroe and Kentsfield per example, but then again those aren't revisions but codenames for different models (even if some 'supposedly' have purer silicon)

even just names of different processors is a help because i can look them up at a later time Any help is better than no help aye

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Originally posted by Jhrono
Prescott being the greatest toaster ever

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Maybe- but not the geekiest toaster ever.

Edit: click the face.

There was a guy that made a heater for his mug with 2 or 4 prescotts...i'll find the link and link you guys

LOL I said toaster as in heat source, not as a real toaster

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Originally posted by Jhrono
LOL I said toaster as in heat source, not as a real toaster

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I know- it just made me think of that toaster. The Prescott mug heater will top that though XD

is all that tech really nessessary for a toaster!! is quite a crack up osome of the weird thiings pple come up with. processor names would be a help if any one knos of some that iv missed im not really up to date with the new stuff i havent had much to do with computing since the P4 first came out lets just say iv had a really long holiday!!

http://www.intel.com
http://www.amd.com
http://www.cpu-collection.de/
etc

Go to such sites for the stuff you want. They have all the stats, graphs and listings you need and everything is explained in great detail.