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Intel Pushes Pentium 4 Past 3 GHz

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the seems-like-only-yesterday dept.

denisbergeron writes "Yahoo has the news about the new P4 who will run at nothing less than 3.06 GHz. But the great avance will be the hyperthreading technology (already present in Xeon) that allows multiple software threads to run more efficiently on a single processor."

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  1. eh? by lordkuri · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yahoo has the news about the new P4 who will run at nothing less than 3.06mhz.

    umm... I've got an XT clone that's faster than that... wanna buy it for about $600?

    (/sarcasm)

  2. Hmmm... by llin · · Score: 5, Funny
    the new P4 who will run at nothing less than 3.06mhz

    Yeah, but what's its top speed?

    1. Re:Hmmm... by Jenova · · Score: 5, Funny

      >>Yeah, but what's its top speed?

      I dunno, it depends of the person throwing the computer I guess?

  3. Incentive? by Gruneun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unreal Tournament 2003 just kicked my 1.0 GHz machine in the nuts and then made fun of me. If for no other reason, I'm glad to see this announcement, because I can expect a price drop on the 2.6 GHz and 2.8 GHz chips.

  4. Turbo? by suss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo has the news about the new P4 who will run at nothing less than 3.06mhz.

    Does it at least have a turbo switch?

  5. Hyperthreading? bah! by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm personally going to build an octathreading CPU by tricking the OS into thinking it's working with EIGHT processors! Wow, that should give me 8x the performance! Stupid Intel restricting themselves to faking just two processors.

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  6. 3.06mhz by stud9920 · · Score: 5, Funny

    3.06milliHz ! Wow ! That means about ten clocks an hour ! With the super deep P4 pipeline (20 deep IIRC), it means it will push some 200 "single clock instruction" in just an hour. But beware of pipeline stalls. They better have a solid branch prediction algorithm.

  7. Re:what's my motivation by bjb · · Score: 5, Funny
    How can Word appear any faster at 3GHz?

    The speed is for Clippy, not YOU... he now is 3D ray-traced and has more artificial intelligence built in!

    If it wasn't for the idea of WYSIWYG and fonts, I'd still be doing my word processing on AppleWorks for the Apple ][.

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    Never hit your grandmother with a shovel, for it leaves a bad impression on her mind...
  8. Re:Bah by hendridm · · Score: 4, Funny

    > are trivial to mod for dual CPU operation and easily overclock to 2.25GHz

    Some of us need reliability and warranty. I'm not going to throw an overclocked, modded AMD POS in the server farm at work. If I do, I'm going to make sure my resume is updated and my suit is free from little white fuzzies.

    I'm gonna go overclock my laundry machine now and cook a pizza in self cleaning clean mode in my oven. Should be done by the time the laundry dings.