64 bit capable P4's?!

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[Anemone]

Indeed, however Intel has dragged its heels so much on the issue of 64 bit in P4's (not even sure normal 915/925 support 64 bit at all yet, and 875 probably never will) that I'd stay a bit conservative about these claims till we've seen some performance tests.

XP-64 won't even run on the Turnwater stuff yet, so its news, but we'll have to see how it works out in practice.

[redleader]

I've heard that 64 bit performance is pretty bad and that they're holding out for a rev2 that will compare better with AMD. I haven't seen any benchmarks i really trust though (Aces, etc).

[bigben2k]

Yep, also known as the "worst kept secret" in the electronics industry. They've been on this for a very long time (6 months+).

[Anemone]

Well that figures given the silence. Revision 2 hehe, maybe like the 720 where they are trying to double the cache to 2mb (I thought to help with the longer pipeline) and maybe touch up the 64bit?