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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. Do they edit these things? by Jennifer+Ever · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Not to be too nit-picky, but if I have to read one more hardware review that sounds like it was scribbled on a napkin by a 9th grader with ADD while watching Moulin Rouge, I'm going to scream.

    "While basically matching the Pentium 4 on a performance level, albeit not even close on a clock-to-clock level."

    Well said! It's a good thing you know how to make bar graphs.

  2. Re:What's the point? by werve · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, yeah... I understand all that - my point concerned the average consumer, not the geeks. I'm really just commenting that the speed at which processors are increasing in performance is outstripping the applications. Although Microsoft is working hard to slow things down (:-)) there isn't much justification for the increased speed.

    I work for a company that does software development (Java, C++, VB etc) and we have PIII 933MHz PCs as standard - even though everyone here would love a 2GHz machine, there really isn't much commerial justification for spending the money.