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:What's up with the number 2.4??

[felipeal]

Or maybe:

'Linux kernel 2.4.19 is out"

PS: don't forget today is 2/4 :)

Re:802.11b is on 2.4Ghz.....

[mprinkey]

It's been shown before that electromagnetic interference from processors can show up in a radio if you listen on the same frequency of the processor.

That is very true. Several years ago, I was working on an antenna design project at a university. We had a spectrum analyzer and a small antenna test rig. Even if I connected a low gain antenna to the unit, I could see spikes at all of the "computer" frequencies...20, 25, 33, 50, 60, 66, 75, 90, 100, 133 MHz. Those were the heady days of the fast 486 and the first- and second-generation Pentium I.

Just to check that it was coming from the neighboring engineering building, I put a directional antenna and could "detect" which computers were in which floors. The undergrad lab had all of the crap 33 MHz boxes. The grad lab on a different floor had the 100s and 133s.

Seen better

[room101]

I didn't really like this review because the number of variables weren't reduce sufficently. He compares the older P4s with DDR SDRAM to the New P4 with RDRAM.

I still don't really know how the new and old P4s compare. For all I know, it might be the memory difference.

I understand that you probably can't get the new P4s with DDR SDRAM, but he should have used RDRAM on the old ones to compare, not DDR SDRAM. Both would have been fine, so you can compare those as well.