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P4 2.2GHz and D845BG Review

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hardwareto-lust-after dept.

nihilist_1137 writes "GreenJifa.Com has gotten their hands on the new Intel P4 2.2GHz/Intel D845BG DDR Motherboard for review. This is the new P4 that has the 0.13m die and the new "Northwood" core. Check out the review." This setup might have a chance to run XP without it feeling like a 386/16 running Windows 3.0 on 4 megs of RAM. Allright, thats probably crazy talk ;)

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  1. A treat! by alexmogil · · Score: 4, Funny

    We finally had the chance to hear 'I hate Microsoft and Intel' in *one sentence*! How rare!

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  2. Re:boot times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    DOS boots pretty damn fast....

  3. Re:Taco's XP comment by MattRog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok -- I was amazed at the difference. If I had the money, I'd be tempted to buy two copies of XP to upgrade my two systems just for that feature!

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  4. She's hosed captain by 0xA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmm, maybe they should chuck that board into their web server....

  5. Boot Time is Inversely Proportionate... by Myriad · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ever notice how it seems that the newer and faster your computer gets, the longer the sucker takes to boot?

    Hence, I believe that (Myriad's law?):

    Boot Time is Inversely Proportionate to Computing Power - The more power you've got, the longer it's going to take.

    Ie, my old 486DX50 took longer to bring up DOS than my 386. (The 386 behind my 286, 8086. Hell, the C64 kicked all their asses!) Primarily because of added TSRs, memory managers etc.

    Then my P100 took longer to fire up... Good 'ol Windows.

    Now the Athlon takes ages... init bloody RAID arrays, UTA100 controllers, SCSI devices, Windows...let windows initialize all the above plus more. Wait wait wait. Go for coffee. Wait some more.

    Kind of sick really.

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  6. Gates Law by Myriad · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ah, I see that in a way Mr.Gates got there first:

    From the Jargon Dictionary

    Gates's Law: "The speed of software halves every 18 months." This oft-cited law is an ironic comment on the tendency of software bloat to outpace the every-18-month doubling in hardware caopacity per dollar predicted by Moore's Law. The reference is to Bill Gates; Microsoft is widely considered among the worst if not the worst of the perpetrators of bloat.

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  7. Re:Bah... by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sir, how dare you bring reality into the picture!

    By the way, why the hell does CmdrTaco care how fast it runs Windows XP? He only runs Linux, right?

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