Due to the fact that the Prescott scales very well with clock speed increases you end up with one mean ass CPU. All Prescott capable motherboards will have 800MHz FSB support and so when you start upping the FSB speed of your processor, you won't be overclocking anything but the chip itself. Part of the reason why it's such a mean overclocker is the fact that it's on a 533MHz bus. Prescott is everything that's bad about the Prescott architecture and nothing that's good about it. Which is one of the few processor features that picks up the slack of the lackluster per clock cycle performance. With the Prescott being slower per clock cycle than Northwood, it doesn't make much sense to have a FSB castrated chip processor without Hyperthreading. The Prescott "A" series is only good for overclocking.
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