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Intel's Prescott-2M: Pentium 4 660 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3 73GHz

Date: 2005-2-21

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware and Software

Test Platforms

Pentium 4 System Athlon FX System
Processor(s) Pentium 4 570J
Pentium 4 660
Pentium 4 3.46GHz XE
Pentium 4 3.76GHz XE
Athlon FX-55
Mainboard ASUS P5AD2-E DFI LanPartyUT SLI-D
Memory 2 x 512MB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667
4.0-4-4-12 @ 710MHz for Extreme Editions
3.0-3-3-10 @ 533MHz for all others
2 x 512MB Corsair Xpert XL DDR-400
2.0-2-2-5 @ 400MHz
BIOS Version 1002.005 - 22nd October 2004 9th February 2005
Disk Drive 74GB Western Digital Raptor
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra - PEG16X
71.20 ForceWare
Operating System Windows XP Professional, SP2
Mainboard Software Intel INF Update Utility 6.3.0.1007 NVIDIA nForce4 Platform Driver 6.39


Benchmark Software

HEXUS.in-house Cryptography Benchmark
Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005) Realstorm 2004
Cinebench 2003
HEXUS.in-house MP3 Encoding Benchmark using LAME 3.96
PicColor 32-bit v4.0
Kribibench v1.1.9

Notes

The Pentium 4 570J was used to emulate a 560 by dropping the multiplier to 18X. The Athlon FX-55 was used to emulate Athlon FX-53/Athlon 64 4000+ by dropping the multiplier to 12X.

CPU-Z Information


3.46GHz Extreme Edition - CPU Information
3.46GHz Extreme Edition - Memory Information
3.46GHz Extreme Edition - Mainboard Information

3.73GHz Extreme Edition - CPU Information
3.73GHz Extreme Edition - Memory Information
3.73GHz Extreme Edition - Mainboard Information
3.73GHz Extreme Edition - Cache Information

Pentium 4 570J - CPU Information
Pentium 4 570J - Memory Information

Pentium 4 660 - CPU Information
Pentium 4 660 - Memory Information

Athlon FX-55 - CPU Information
Athlon FX-55 - Memory Information
Athlon FX-55 - Mainboard Information

BIOS Support for Prescott-2M

The ASUS P5AD2-E has had support for the new core since October 2004. However, some mainboards will need to have their BIOS images flashed to support the new core, so look out for that. Here's the ASUS BIOS showing the first boot of the 660.

Intels Prescott-2M: Pentium 4 660 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3 73GHz







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