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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."
Please oh please let the next article read:
"Average number of offspring has decreased to 2.4"
come up with only 243 pins?
Now MSWord can bring up the Paperclip animation even faster...
I'm a bloodsucking fiend! Look at my outfit!
Interference with the processor...?
I mean, wouldn't that just suck? Somebody walks in to the room with a new Pentium and your network dies????!!!!!
Hexayurt - open source refugee shelter,
bigger monitors/screens are better, faster modems are better...why don't CPU's follow the same rule?
I wouldn't want a 21" CPU
Of course, my machines do just fine at 200-550Mhz.
More RAM is better, bigger HDs are better, bigger monitors/screens are better, faster modems are better...why don't CPU's follow the same rule?
They do. Faster CPU's are better.
...reports of fatal data collisions are up 300% today, due to little 1's and 0's comming down off a 2400mhz processor slamming into 333mhz ram and careening down to a 33mhz PCI bus...that's GOTTA hurt!
:-)
Are you kidding... I'd love it if Intel were able to reduce the size of their chips!
Note: That was sarcasm for the humor impaired.
Or just "pinched off" ?
faster than any Pentium!
you accidentally hit the shift key when you pressed 1.
I love my 550 MHz PowerBook G4, but there's no way it's faster than a 2.4 GHz Pentium4.
a) 2.4 GHz
b) 2.4 Megabit
c) 2.4 ERA
d) 2.4 Linux Kernel
e) Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution
f) 2.4 Cowboy Neals
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
"Unleashed" is accurate. This reminds me of an old klingon proverb: "What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."
M$ will find a way to make that shiny new P4 2.4GHz crawl along like a P100. A few more security bugs, a couple hundred more features in Office, a few more annoyances like Messenger, and we're there.
Who else counted the pins in the picture? :-)
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!