From ArsTechnica:French hardware site X86-Secret has reviewed what looks to be Intel's upcoming Pentium 630, as well that the Pentium 4 EE 3.73 GHz. The tweaked Pentium 4 600 series is not scheduled to be introduced to market for another few weeks, but the details of the architecture are largely known. The 600 series doubles the Pentium 4's L2 cache size to 2MB, officially supports x86 64-bit extensions, and features the NX (no execute) bit. A newer version of SpeedStep is also expected, but the frontside bus will remain at 800MHz. The Pentium 4 EE 3.73 is also close to release..........
.........Now, you obviously can't test the Pentium 4 630's 64-bit performance against the Pentium 4 530, but you can put it up against the Athlon 64. Here, too, there's not much to get excited about. In five of seven tests run, the Athlon 64 3200+ beat the Pentium 4 630, oftentimes by a healthy margin. In the Blobby Dancer and POVRay Landscape tests, the 630 came through with some very strong wins, topping even the Athlon 64 3800+, in one case leading the reviewing to suspect a flaw in the benchmark. Glimmer of hope? We'll have to wait and see. Gaming wise, the 630 was trounced by the Athlon 64s, as we've come to expect as of late....... Read on at the above shown link.

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