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."

Comments

2 Ghz CPU or marketing BS ?

[J.D. Hogg]

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 ...

Re:What's the point?

[Glytch]

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

Re:What's the point?

[tunah]

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 :(

Re:Surest sign of obsolescence

[TheLink]

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%...