Wahts the Diff between Nothwood and prescott cores?

[Yaka]

anyone know the differance between northwood and prescott cores? and which ones is the best one out of the 2?

 

[Ardrias]

Prescott apparently doesnt run better than Northwood, apart from some business apps, according to various benchmarks. Also it runs way hotter.

Take your pick!

 

[Xavier]

It also depends on the speed you buy in at. Below 3.4Ghz Northwood is the clear winner, unless the app heavily uses SSE-3, which nothing does. At 3.4Ghz they level peg in some apps, and beyond that speed the scaling on the Prescott core is pretty impressive.

Northwoods are only made to 3.4Ghz though, Intel have stopped using that core and manufacture process in favour of the Prescott die.

 

[Chilly]

my measly 2.8ghz prescott runs really hot - although I can and have successfully clocked it 3.4ghz and run it at safe temperatures for hours while playing games.

 

[Ch3tan]

Also depends what core your mobo actually supports.

 

[Yaka]

well very happy with the mobo as above the 3.4ghz runs far cooler than the 2.8 prescott i had . even when playing CS:S the ICE cooler is not as warm as it used to be and fan dont speed up.