Intel's New Pentium 4 Chipsets Reviewed

RainDog writes "Intel has released its 845PE and GE chipsets for the Pentium 4 processor, and reviews are hitting the web. The new chipsets officially support DDR333, but are stuck with AGP 4X and ATA/100 support. What's most interesting about these new chipsets is that they're faster than VIA and SiS' latest Pentium 4 offerings, both of which support faster AGP 8X and ATA/133 graphics and disk interfaces. As if that weren't enough, Intel's new "Blue Mountain" motherboard comes on a black PCB with all sorts of multimedia ports and memory timing options. Not bad for the traditionally conservative Intel."

Comments

bad news for Linux?

[PhysicsGenius]

I love to have the latest, most expensive hardware as much as the next cloistered geek, but I have to wonder if this is such great news for Linux?

Consider that every time new hardware comes out, Linux (and the GNU Source process in general) has to go through a period of reverse engineering, documentation "freeing", alpha testing, beta testing, etc. Add to that the fact that Linux kernels come out less often than wars in the Persian Gulf and we could be looking at several years before True Geeks can take full advantage of the power of these Intel G4's.

is intel even relevant in the geek community?

[TheGratefulNet]

its been YEARS since I bought an intel cpu.

since the days of the k7, its been the price/performance winner for me and all the systems I build for myself and friends.

the cpu prices are absurd for intel. I don't even CONSIDER intel anymore. not even the tiniest thought.

until their cpu prices are about even with amd, their chipsets mean nothing to me.