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Pentium IV Hits 2 Ghz

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-and-faster-they-go dept.

A number of people wrote in with the news that Intel released the 2 Ghz chip. The Tech-Report article points out a couple interesting meta-ideas - this is Intel's chance to retake the performance crown from AMD, as well as being one of those round numbers that makes people feel warm and fuzzy. I'm sure there's going to be gobs of benchmarks today - post 'em in the comments as you find 'em.

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  1. 2GHz P4 more $$$ than AthlonMP by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's see, do I buy a 2GHz uniprocessor P4 with its performence-killing 20 stage pipeline, miniscule 8K L1 cache, and high-latency/overpriced RDRAM, or do I buy a dual processor AthlonMP, 128K L1 cache, DDR SDRAM, and 64-bit PCI slots (Tyan Tiger MP) for LESS MONEY?

    These days, Intel CPUs are for people who don't know any better (or are forced to buy Dell).