Intel Resumes P4 Shipment

April 21, 2003 11:30 AM

According to this story on HardOCP, Intel has resumed shipment of their Pentium 4 3.06Ghz CPU with 800mhz FSB. The anomaly found last week is fixable through a BIOS update, and Intel will issue such a software update.

Maarten Goldstein

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tommysgun

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April 21, 2003 11:34 AM

Question for teh shackheads... Do these Intel CPUs still do that "Speed throttling" were it lowers the clockspeed while idle? If so, Is this good or bad?
- tommysgun
  
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  April 21, 2003 11:35 AM
  
  Oh yeah I don't mean the MOBILE CPUs... Only the Desktop ones...
- nudel
  
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  April 21, 2003 11:40 AM
  
  I guess it would mean less heat (at times when it doesn't really matter) and less wasted electricity (probably not compared to all the other crap wasting power in your PC or house though) if it did.
- Wolfanoz
  
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  April 21, 2003 11:52 AM
  
  Speedstep? I'm not sure if it's included still but I have a laptop that has it and it definately cuts down on the heat build up.
- b00tch
  
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  April 21, 2003 12:21 PM
  
  I thought that only happened when the cpu overheated?
- Zeeliv
  
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  April 21, 2003 1:46 PM
  
  You are confused.
  
  They have never throttled while idle, they throttle when they get too hot and shut off if they go far beyond that. They don't throttle at the drop of a hat either, it has to be very extreme...happens at around 70C which is about impossible to reach with any normal cooling.
  - Zeeliv
    
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    April 21, 2003 1:50 PM
    
    oh forgot to answer the second part.
    
    It is a good thing, a very good thing. It's never gonna do it from something minor like what programs you are running, only from an emergency like your heatsink clip breaking or your fan dying.
- stupidduke
  
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  April 21, 2003 4:18 PM
  
  You mean this? [quote]CPU Speed Regulation : N/quote]