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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."

11 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp sbc

  2. FISH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I AM A FISH!

    1. Re:FISH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good for you! I, myself, am a lump of dirt. At least, that's what the Creationists tell me.

    2. Re:FISH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You might not be right now, but after you die you will be soon enough. And where do you think the stuff you're made out of came from anyway?

  3. 2.5? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Screw intel. I am a tunderbird man now. AMD rocks.

  4. First Beowulf cluster post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a beowulf cluster w/ every node having one or more of these cpu's in it!!!!

    Woohoo!

  5. SUPERNOVA REMNANT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a supernova remnant!

    (And so are all of you.)

    1. Re:SUPERNOVA REMNANT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Not ALL of us. Guarantee that the trans-Fe atoms in our bodies came from supernova (binding energy starts going the "other way" at iron). Probably most of the non-hydrogen stuff did too, though smaller atoms could arguably have been ejected apart from a supernova. But, there is no reason to assume that the hydrogen in our bodies (there is a lot...75% H20, two atoms per) was in a supernova. In fact, prior to a supernova eruption, I think most of the hydrogen has been fused at least into helium if not something heavier.

      Just being an asshole...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.