P4 Price Cuts

December 8, 2000 1:01 PM

Word over at ZDNet is that the Pentium4 chips are gonna get a big fat price cut this weekend. Ok not huge fat but about 11% or so which is pretty respectable.

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stinky

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December 8, 2000 1:02 PM

Damn, more price cuts!!!
- JT
  
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  December 8, 2000 1:03 PM
  
  yes damny damn damn damn!
  - stinky
    
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    December 8, 2000 1:05 PM
    
    good thing I didn't buy one of these things yet. I would have kicked myself for it... I figure when the NV20 comes out, maybe these will be cheap enough to buy =P
    - pyide
      
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      December 8, 2000 1:06 PM
      
      Aren't these slower than P3s with some stuff though?
      - stinky
        
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        December 8, 2000 1:12 PM
        
        yeah, I saw that. It's a pity really. They should be almost 50% faster out of the box without any special code optimizations, but they aren't... :(
        
        ease_one
        
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        December 8, 2000 1:18 PM
        
        Thing is they can have really high clock speeds i think. 2 ghz one is going to be pretty fast
        
        stinky
        
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        December 8, 2000 1:21 PM
        
        yeah, I know, but if you figure 1Ghz PIII vs 1.5Ghz P4... it should have a 50% increase from the clock speed alone right? Well, it looks like it didn't.
        
        Of course, once they start optimizing code for the P4, then it will start having better benchmarks.
    - Sampo
      
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      December 8, 2000 1:08 PM
      
      Aren't they planning to both change the form factor and do a die shrink? Seems to me that it'd be a good idea to hold off until they've done both of those.
      - stinky
        
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        December 8, 2000 1:10 PM
        
        hmmm, maybe I'll just wait until the next processor comes out =)