Question:T/F that the prescott will be named Pentium 5

I seriously hope that they aren't going to call it the Pentium 5, because everybody will shorten it to P5, and that'll get confused with the old P5 cores of yesteryear, unless people really do have THAT short a memory.

<edit> For a new name, intel should call it something like the scepter, because sept = 7 IIRC, and it can be a cool play on words, and a scepter was used by kings, so it gives an image of power. Yea! And AMD is quickly becoming pure evil for getting rid of the 4 mounting holes in their specifications :mad:. </edit>

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Originally posted by SSXeon5


That site is so dumb, its still a P4 bro, just smaller die and fsb added. The northwoods have hyperthreading just disabled. P5 ahahahaah

SSXeon

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Marketing Gimic right there.. Kinda reminds me of AOL.. AOL should not be at 7.0, try 3.56

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Originally posted by nitrocool
I seriously hope that they aren't going to call it the Pentium 5, because everybody will shorten it to P5, and that'll get confused with the old P5 cores of yesteryear, unless people really do have THAT short a memory.

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uh, i don't know many people outside of techland that called any proc the P5. so not much confusion should arise. who talks about the original P5 anymore anyway?

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Originally posted by deeznuts

who talks about the original P5 anymore anyway?

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Noted..

i'll take a shot in the dark and say...true.

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Originally posted by nitrocool
I seriously hope that they aren't going to call it the Pentium 5, because everybody will shorten it to P5, and that'll get confused with the old P5 cores of yesteryear, unless people really do have THAT short a memory.

<edit> For a new name, intel should call it something like the scepter, because sept = 7 IIRC, and it can be a cool play on words, and a scepter was used by kings, so it gives an image of power. Yea! And AMD is quickly becoming pure evil for getting rid of the 4 mounting holes in their specifications :mad:. </edit>

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Well, the name "Pentium" has become a household name which is why intel stuck with it. Then again selling the Intel Hexium(P2,P3), may not have gone too well, or the Sexium(P4) may have gone to the porn addicts :eek: . Anyways, I don't see Intel changing the "Pentium" moniker anytime soon(probably not until they come out with a home 64-bit processor), but I would be shocked if Prescott did NOT receive the Pentium 5 label(as I said before there was almost NO difference between the P2 and the P3, but that got a new name) and AMD will have a new name processor out(whatever hammer is released as) so I'm pretty darn sure Intel will have a new sounding one too.