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New Xeon CPU Hot and Underpowered
Kasracer writes "Web Sites The Register and GamePC received several of the new dual-core processors from Intel, dubbed 'Paxville', and ran a battery of tests on them. What did they find? From the article: 'There's no doubt about it, Intel's dual-core Xeons are their most power hungry Xeons to date ... Even when idling, two dual-core Xeons consume nearly 400W of power at any given time, which is amazingly high, even by Intel's standards ... their new dual-core chips (while powerful in their own right) simply are bested across the board by AMD's dual-core Opteron processors. Even worse, the Opterons typically perform much better while running at slower clock speeds and only having half the amount of on-die L2 cache to utilize.'" -
Intel Dual Core Xeon Benchmarked
An anonymous reader writes "A few weeks back, Intel launched a new dual core chip with little applause. It appears we know now why, as the chip has been benchmarked by the chaps at GamePC. In tests against the dual core AMD Opteron processor, Intel's new chip gets thoroughly thrashed, losing out in terms of raw performance while eating a lot more power. " -
Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review
Babstar writes "Discussed numerous times on Slashdot, the quiet PC is the holy grail for many, and one step in the right direction could be using a Pentium M (designed for notebooks) in a desktop machine. Here's a review of a desktop Pentium M motherboard. Surprisingly it's also a great game machine." -
Intel Hyperthreading In Reality
A reader writes: "Looks like GamePC has got the first look at Intel's new Xeon processor, which has the new super-fantastico Hyperthreading technology, which tricks your OS into thinking one CPU is two CPUs, two CPUs is four. Looks neat in theory, benchies included." -
Intel Northwood CPU Review
gcshaw2nd writes: "Here it is, the first hands-on review I've seen of Intel's new Northwood chip, running at two gigahertz. It overclocks like a hog, easily to 2.5Ghz." -
AMD Athlon Multi-Processor Under Linux
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Just saw this review at GamePC. It's a pretty extensive review of AMD's entry into the multiprocessor arena, full of exciting benchmarking results. The full text is here." -
AMD Athlon Multi-Processor Under Linux
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Just saw this review at GamePC. It's a pretty extensive review of AMD's entry into the multiprocessor arena, full of exciting benchmarking results. The full text is here." -
AMD Athlon Multi-Processor Under Linux
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Just saw this review at GamePC. It's a pretty extensive review of AMD's entry into the multiprocessor arena, full of exciting benchmarking results. The full text is here." -
C`t Throws Athlons And P4s In The Gladiator Pit
An unnamed correspondent writes: "In the most recent C`T "Computer technik" there is a great benchmark with a pentium 4 (1,5 and 1,4 ghz)vs a athlon thunderbird (1,2 ghz and 1,2 ghz ddr memory with the 760 chipset). If you think that that isn`t a fair race ... then read it now here and here in English. You should get a copy of the German paper version anyway -- great magazine, even beter benchmark. Now does anyone know where to get a 760 mainboard ;-)" Unnamed's cousin Noname also contributes a link to GamePC, which reviews in grand 13-page SE-style the 1.4 and 1.5 GHz P4 chips. -
New PIII: SMP In, Serial Number Out
florin writes: "This article from GamePC talks about the new cB0 stepping of the Intel Pentium III processor. The FC-PGA format has finally been validated for use in multiprocessor systems. After much confusion about this issue, it is good to see 'Now Dual Processor Capable' clearly marked on the retail box. Another item of interest is that Intel has gone ahead and stripped the controversial processor serial number feature from this new PIII, like they announced they would do on their upcoming Willamette CPU. "