Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965

well you have to go on and anyway the netburst core is limiting due to it's long pipeline

how long has the pentium brand been Around?

 

Since 1992 when the Pentium 60 was released. Pent being the 5th revision of x86 technology (586) after 486 SX, DX, DX2, DX4 (obviously). But Pentium became a brand name rather than a revision name, so Intel kept it through 686, 786, 886 (hence, athlon K8's are 886 = 8th generation x86 tech) etc. AMD still used K5/K6 to denote revisions in socket 7 but they dropped it for brand names of Athlon and Duron during K7 when they first went to slot then socket A.

 

Timothy9w, at the same time, the long pipeline allows high clock speeds and tremendous performance in applications that execute in long, continuous instructions. This doesnt work out too well in most games, which is why A64s have better performance. However, Quake is one of those games thats coded to take advantage of longer pipelines to some degree. Now that Intel has 65nm tech that allows lower temperature silicon, they can pack on the MHz again just as theyre killing the architecture off - much like how they killed off the Pentium 3 which still had plenty left in it (as demonstrated by the Pentium M).