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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. And that's not all... by Glonk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Aside from the meager "5-10%" performance boost per clock that GamePC reports, the new PC1066 RDRAM and 533MHz FSB coming in a few months offers a "12%" performance boost per clock, when used with the original P4.

    Northwood + 533MHz FSB/PC1066 RDRAM should be quite nifty.

    The PC1066 benchmarks are here.

    According to that chart there, PC1066 RDRAM actually has lower latency than PC133 SDRAM. I don't know how accurate that is, but it says PC1066 RDRAM takes 207 cycles for 128 bytes, and PC133 takes 229 cycles (PC800 took 270)?

    Maybe I'm reading that wrong or don't know some specifics about RDRAM architecture, but that sounds nifty...

  2. Even quicker than 3ghz !! by sh0rtie · · Score: 5, Informative



    now even quicker !! this page claims it has a world record

    3023mhz !