Intel XD Bit Ships

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:49 am

I was talking with Intel today and during our conversation Intel XD Bit came up. Turns out that Intel has enabled XD Bit it the latest processors off the line. Intel said you can tell if XD Bit is enabled or not by a "J" suffix on the processor. It would look like 560J instead of 560.

Now that XD Bit is enabled in the hardware (the cpu) all you need to get it fully enabled is Windows XP and Service Pack 2.

Just some FYI for something that changed and got very little press.

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:14 am

Seems like alot of releases have been "under the radar" lately, from CPUs to mobos..... I wonder why? coyuld it be that companies are finally tired of overhyping products? Could it be that they are wanting the products to sell themselves? Or could it be they are putting out less than stellar equipment?

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:27 am

I'll pick the last one you had there.................

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:31 am

I think its also to start deemphisizing processor clock and performance. With the change in names, and cancelation of the 4ghz intel is totaly remaping the playing field. expect features to become one of the major new selling points. Intel will likly make the XD bit functionality public when MS can get the OS to handel it properly. As of now if XD gets activated by a buffer overflow in the system kernel your kernel crashes and your system reboots, no error codes no nothing.