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Intel Moves To 533MHz FSB

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-coincidental-timing dept.

homerj79 writes: "Intel has launched an upgrade 850 chipset and faster Pentium 4's today. The new chipset, dubbed the 850E, supports a 533MHz (133MHz x 4) front side bus, as do the processors. Supporting processors come in speeds of 2.53, 2.4 and 2.26GHz. The 2.4GHz part is denoted as supporting the new FSB by a 'B' tagged to the end of it. And it appears as if the new chipset gives the P4 a performance boost in most apps over the previous 400MHz FSB chips and the Athlon XP." Meanwhile, back at the other processor ranch, firemoth writes: "Today OCAU has something special - They've gotten their hands on 3 AthlonXP CPU's based on AMD's new "Thoroughbred" core. This is the .13 micron process, of course, with lower voltage. This article compares them to the older Palomino core in both speed and temperature.. and they throw one into a Vapochill supercooling case and see just how fast it can go."

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  1. 5x133 = 533? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    That's brilliant Intel! That must have been calculated on the original Pentium

    1. Re:5x133 = 533? by MisterBlister · · Score: 3, Funny

      This might have been funny if the writeup above (not to mention the article and common sense in general) didn't say that its 133x4. So I have to ask, are you a moron?

  2. 2.4GHz clock speed by dattaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    I remember the old ZX81 I built from a kit clocked its Z80 at 3.58MHz, so it could generate the synced television picture directly from the processor.

    With 2.4GHz, I'm sure there will be wireless experiments by attempting to use the CPU as a DSP.

  3. Wake me when something happens by colmore · · Score: 3, Funny

    *yawn*

    I'm running a 900 mhz Duron right now, and have been for a year and a half.

    I do some pretty heavy photoshopping, media work, and compiling. I've never felt that I was being slowed down significantly by my processor.

    I upgraded to 1GB RAM, and that improved things, but I just don't feel the need to go out and get the latest processor any more, the need is simply not in the applications.

    Maybe if I were playing games or ripping DivX, but really it seems that for the vast majority of the home market, the technology has vastly outpaced the need, even the latest-greatest MS OS can't justify the need for this kind of iron.

    Though I guess this means that the next computer I buy will be that much cheaper, since "low end" systems (with slight boosts to hard drive and memory) are now all that I need.

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  4. You know you need a new computer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    when the clock speed of the latest chipsets is faster than the clock speed of your processor, motherboard, and memory. Combined.

  5. Lightning fast crashes by Anti-Microsoft+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny

    This should increase the speed at which Windows XP crashes dramatically. I can probably fit 1.5 times as many crashes in during the same period of time as on my old motherboards.