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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. Only 2.5 Ghz? by Deltan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some people have had that little gem up to 3Ghz. Not exactly in English, but pictures say a thousand words.

  2. Re:Overclocking by BWJones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When performing calculations that can take hours or days even, an increase in performance of even 10% can result in significant time/money savings. There are those mid level workstation users (like me) and high end users that can and do need every last bit of performance they can get. At this level, a few hundred $$'s every few months is nothing.

    Hell, just the yearly support costs of a single SGI Octane are such that I could afford to purchase a new Macintosh G4 with a flat panel yearly for what it costs. So buying a new $800 chip twice a year does not even make me blink.

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