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Pentium 4 2.8GHz

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the need-for-speed dept.

DigitaBiscuit writes "The new 2.8GHz Pentium 4 has been officially launched by Intel today. Sporting a 533MHz System Bus, this new P4 looks to put the hurt on AMD's new Athlon XP 2600+. Benchmarks and a full review with performance versus AMD's new chip, can be found here." The NDAs must be expiring today, since we already have another review submitted as well.

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  1. Benchmarks by Jacer · · Score: 1, Troll

    Are they all hacked up in favor of the P4 too? It's hard to build identical systems that only compare the procs when the FSB is so different. Is AMD just trying to standardize on one motherboard or is there a reason I can't go above 266 without overclocking? I won't upgrade until amd increases the FSB on the procs. I hope I'm not alone...

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  2. Pentium V will be even faster ! by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 1, Troll



    I had the priviledge to witness Pentium 5 in action. When compared to the 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, Pentium 5 (also 2.8 GHz) ran at least 20% faster !

    Now let's hope that AMD will do something about the front side bus, and turning up the heat on Intel.

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  3. Re:Just contributes to that mountain in China by fmaxwell · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, I'm still using an MMX-200 with 128 megs of RAM for all of my work, and it's not a limitation.

    I would not hire a doctor uses ancient tools and neither would I hire a software engineer that does. If you have so little enthusiasm for technology, then find a field that interests you more.

    lack of processing power isn't stopping me from earning 15 quid/hour from writing PHP and MySQL based applications.

    Since you are posting anonymousely, I'll be frank: That's not good pay. If my math is correct, it's less than $23 U.S. per hour. Maybe the amount we get paid is related to the speed of our computers...

  4. is moores law dying? by oooga · · Score: 0, Troll

    I remember I was in eighth grade when Intel announced their first gigahertz chip. It's been nearly four years, or well over 36 months; according to Moores law Intel should be selling chips faster than 4 gigahertz. What's going on?

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