Intel's 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Unleashed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 2, 2002 @09:42AM from the or-about-to-be dept.

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."

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Re:Does anyone really care? by rudy_wayne · 2002-04-02 11:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's all just marketing hype now. It's purely a matter of Intel and AMD trying to "one-up" each other.

"I'm the fastest!"
" No, I am!!"

For the average user, once you get up to 1.5 ghz or so, it doesn't really matter. My Athlon XP 1700 has a clock speed almost 50% faster than my wife's 1 ghz AMD Thunderbird, but her computer doesn't seem noticably slower.