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Intel Releases "Fastest Chip Ever"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cpu-cycles-to-spare dept.

mao che minh writes "From News Factor Network: Intel has released the world's fastest chip ever. The new P4 runs at 3.06GHz, at 3 billion cycles per second. Man, and I'm still squeezing the last bit of life out of my Pentium 233!" Tom's Hardware already has a review up about it, and it looks to live up to most of the hype.

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  1. Tomorrow... by dfn5 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    AMD will have a chip that runs faster and cheaper at half the clock speed.

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  2. Most of the hype by ENOENT · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yup, this chip sure lives up to the hype. It runs at 3.06 GHz, all right. And it's made by Intel. Oh yeah, and it has some mention of "Pentium 4" printed on it. It's great that the hype is so informative.

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  3. Oh I'm so not excited. by The_Guv'na · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Intel are squeezing clock speeds ever higher for Ghz marketing, hence why similarly clocked AMD chips outperform them tick-for-tick. This has been known for a while now.

    Intel are forever releasing "The Fastest Chip Ever", and in my experience, AMD will continue to release The Best [for MY purposes] Chip Ever. Also, Intel have a habit of sharply dropping prices on older chips, especially in Q1 of the year.

    All the morons about to shout "AMD Fanboy!!!" please do so now, so that you are shown up as the dickheads you are with my next paragraph. All done? Good.

    When Intel release a chip that has the most Bang-for-Pound-Sterling for the apps I run, which means mainly games, then I'll consider it for my yearly [times is 'ard!] upgrade.

    Ali

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  4. The First with the Worst by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    From the company that brought you:
    • The Little Endian Instruction Set
    • The 386, no wait, the 386SX, no wait, the 386DX
    • The 486 with the coprocessor cut out with a Laser
    • The Indivisible Pentium
    • The Celeron that outruns the PIII
    The worlds fastest... okay, highest clock speed, chip.
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