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Intel Northwood CPU Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the king-of-the-hill dept.

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."

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  1. Overclocking by TheQuantumShift · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this needed? I mean seriously needed. I saw the benefits a few years ago in getting higher speeds out of celerons, but mother of god, are you seriously going to notice a difference overclocking chips that are already at 2000 or so Mhz? I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but why take life off your cpu(s) when you don't need to? I don't know about most people, but I can't afford a new $800 chip every 4 or 5 months. Hell, I still can't afford to upgrade from my dual pentium pro's...

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  2. Bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Story posted 2 minutes ago, server is hosed already.

    Maybe they need to quit talking about the P4 and pop one in their server already?

  3. Re:Clock Speed by Howie · · Score: 2, Funny

    = 2000000000 Hz. Metric.

    and how much is that in imperial hertz? :)

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  4. 2 Ghz CPU or marketing BS ? by J.D.+Hogg · · Score: 5, Funny
    Richard, Intel's VP of marketing : John, we need to produce higher gogohertz CPUs, other CPU manufacturers are creaming us right now.
    John, Intel's VP of engineering : You mean "gigahertz" I 'spose : well, we can't, CPU core designs are reaching their limits. Technically, it's not very realistic you know.
    Richard : Who's talking about technical stuffs here ? I mean, just crank up the gogohertz man, we need more hype fast.
    John How about if we designed synchronous processors instead ? now *that* would be sexy.
    Richard : You mean hotter than more gogohertz ?
    John : Sure, it would impress the technical crowd, and we'd have a real actual breakthrough in CPU design in less than 5 year. That's pretty hot, I'd say.
    Richard : Yeah, well, tech people are nice, but the Joe Sixpacks who walk into Fry's and buy a new PC, they want more gogohertz.
    John : *sigh* Well, I guess we could double the clock and put a frequency divider inside the CPU ...

    etc ...

  5. Re:What's the point? by Glytch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, overclocking one of these babies is more like strapping a Saturn 5 onto the back of an Energia.

  6. Re:What's the point? by tunah · · Score: 3, Funny
    Especially considering you can get a dual 1.3 GHz celeron system for next to nothing.

    Where from? I'll take 5!

    Why do I live in NZ :(

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  7. Re:Surest sign of obsolescence by TheLink · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh my p166 is running even slower than the bus speeds nowadays.

    But I guess it's definitely worth considering an upgrade when a new cpu's frequency variations/fluctuations would be larger than my old cpu's clockspeed :).

    e.g. Chips running at 40GHz plus minus 0.5%...

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  8. Re:Surest sign of obsolescence by The+Fred · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about the fact that there are PDA's that have more raw processing power than your boxen?