Intel's 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Unleashed

EconolineCrush writes: "Intel has released a 2.4GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor, and The Tech Report does an excellent job comparing its performance with previous Pentium 4 processors, and the latest in AMD's Athlon XP stable. There's more to this story than just another notch on the MHz pole, as the review showcases some new benchmarks in an already diverse set of tests, and shows the new P4 leveraging an impressive performance from RDRAM-based platform. Incidentally, the slack demand for RDRAM has it almost as cheap as DDR SDRAM."

Comments

Re:The song remains the same

[Toraz Chryx]

Nforce is seeming like a nice solid platform these days, I'm using an SiS 735 board here and it's NO trouble whatsoever... the AMD 761/762 (uni/smp) northbridges are stable.

If I hear ONE more person say "I'm not buying AMD 'cause VIA chipsets suck", I'm going on a killing spree.. damnit.

Does anyone really care?

[Heretik]

Seriously, does anyone actually care anymore? Even the hardcore geeks I know couldn't care less, and don't even know what the 'fastest' processor out ATM is.

No troll, just wondering; is it just me losing interest or has the whole thing gotten old?

2.4Ghz for what?

[mshurpik]

What exactly is 2.4Ghz supposed to do for me? I bought a 1.2Ghz athlon last year, and the only time the processor hits peak load is when the M$_OS is copying files. I certainly don't need 1.2 Ghz for games, or for apps.

Maybe a 2.4Ghz processor will allow the next version of the M$_OS to log me on, or to boot up? M$_OS seems to need all the power it can find.

On the other hand,

[ZaBu911]

I would want a 21" penis. Hmm, come to think of it, so would my girlfriend.