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Intel's New Pentium 4 Chipsets Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the revealing-reviewing dept.

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."

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  1. No Credibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reviewer loses all credibility with comments like

    (OK, I admit it: I made up the part about the Firewire ports. But you get the idea.)

    all the way in the next paragraph after including Firewire was a feature.

    Also is this a review or an advertisment?

    1. Re:No Credibility by goldcd · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That was a joke. "You all thought I was going to say it didn't come with an optional dancing midget and what I actually said was I made up the Firewire bit."

    2. Re:No Credibility by pacc · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You don't fit in on slashdot.

      Anyone here should see that firewire is included in the features on an Intel motherboard and chuckle at the impossibly sublime humour of the reviewer, not needing any explanation.

      I mean, firewire, Intel, hello

    3. Re:No Credibility by Nintendork · · Score: 3, Insightful

      This threw me off at first too as I scanned the text for the interesting parts. It took me a few seconds to link it up with the Midget joke.

      -Lucas

  2. tisk tisk by Ishkibble · · Score: 0, Insightful

    why do prople put so much stock in to intel? all the good IT/computer people AMD is the way to go. i mean commom if intel wants to move ahead in the world, they have to support the newest features, like ATA/166,and AGP 8X. Take AMD for axample, even tho the clock speed on the AMD XP chips are slower it's features make up for it. like 3DNOW!, 3DNOW! +, SSE, SSE extended, MMX, MMX +, and MMX extended this is the same seniro with ATI Vs. Nvidia again all the graphic people know ATI is better, Nvidia knows what the public wants to here, so they make the fastes clock speed. but ATi has much better features, like smoothvision, and truform.

  3. Once again. by Gekko · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do not equate to we.

    We are not all linux power users. Some are windows users, some are solaris users, some are casual linux users. Thats what makes the world great. Diversity.

    This is news for nerds, stuff that matters. Not all nerds are the same. Stuff that matters to me may not matter to you, stuff that matters to you may not matter to me.

    If you don't like it don't read the articles you don't want to. Please don't whine about them. Plenty of articles that will appeal to you will come.

    --
    I mod down any one who says "I'm sure I will get modded down for this"
  4. Stuck with? by centron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "...but are stuck with AGP 4X and ATA/100 support." Stuck with? AGP 8x and ATA/133 are very marginal improvements in most situations. Stuck with would have been having AGP 8x, ATA/133, and DDR266.

    --

    XeoMage

  5. No Serial ATA? No Sale... by jefftp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it doesn't have Serial ATA on the board, it isn't a new product. I can't be the only one holding off on their next major upgrade until they can get Serial ATA on a motherboard with an Intel chipset.

    So come on Intel, put Serial ATA on the board and you've got a sure sale. No more of this parallel ATA crap. While you're at it, get rid of the serial and parallel ports.

  6. Re:Is it me.... by Zathrus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As usual, the last 10% of performance does not equate to the last 10% of price.

    If you need the features/benefits that are available in that last 10%, then you're going to have to pay a huge premium. Or wait a few years for it to filter down to the other 90%.

    Go back a decade and try to get 3D video at 640x480 that runs close to 30 fps. You're talking an SGI Oxygen with a RealityEngine2 costing about $500k or so.

    Now I can buy a card that does all that, at a higher resolution and fps, with better textures for about $50.

    But if you needed that ability 10 years ago then you paid the price. Such is life at the bleeding edge.