Intel Releases "Fastest Chip Ever"

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.

Comments

fast chip?

[AmigaAvenger]

Maybe I'm missing the point, but isn't every new chip the manufcatures release the 'fastest chip ever'

I remember when the Pentium 200 was the fastest chip ever!

Re:fast chip?

[Mr. Sketch]

You must be new... I can recall the PCWorld issue that reviewed the brand new 286/12 processor (yes that's a screaming 12Mhz, with turbo turned on of course) and the reviewer sayed "It ran so fast it left skid marks on my desktop!". How's that for fast?

Re:fast chip?

[Sloppy]

Maybe I'm missing the point, but isn't every new chip the manufcatures release the 'fastest chip ever'

Yeah, but this one is even faster!

Re:fast chip?

[JonWan]

"It ran so fast it left skid marks on my desktop!". How's that for fast?

Well I guess this one leaves skid marks in your pants.

Re:The real question is...

[jonnythan]

With 82 watts of heat produced, I don't think you need to overclock it at all for that to happen.

Wow!

[darkov]

And if they had a 40-stage pipeline they could go to 6GHz! Then I'd be really impressed.

Too bad

[tcd004]

It runs so hot that it has to be cooled by the blood of a virgin every hour.

tcd004

Re:Too bad

[fobbman]

They're catering to the geek market. That's a large supply of virgins right there.

Congratulations, it's a CPU, and an oven

[ka9dgx]

So, we have a CPU with an internal clock faster than the 2.5 Ghz in my Microwave oven. Does it come with a carousel to keep the heating even?

--Mike--

What happened??

[Ec|ipse]

So with a 3gig cpu running with 1gig memory and a 100gig of harddrive space. Is this something we can expect?

User 1 "Did my computer just crash?"
User 2 "Couldn't tell, happened to fast."

GHz vs. Billion Cycles Per Second

[Zordak]

The new P4 runs at 3.06GHz, at 3 billion cycles per second.

That's nothing. I hear AMD is going to come out with a 3.06GHz chip that runs at 4 billion cycles per second!

Re:Intel

[Twirlip of the Mists]

X86 is a joke and anyone who is buying a processor these days should just wait and watch, that's what I've been doing since 1998.

How's that working out for you? ;-)

Re:82 watts!

[Anonymous Coward]

Intel should run an ad where a family sits around the (Apple) computer in coats and earmuffs, shaking from the cold.. everything blue, with icicles (sp).

Then switch to a shot of a family in a cozy room, all basking around the glow of a warm intel machine..

Intel .. Keeps You Warm! (tm)

Hey, those marketers can sell anything, right?

Re:Personal PC's

[cardshark2001]

I don't understand the need to always be on the bleeding edge of technology

You obviously have not played the leaked doom demo.

Newsflash!

[limekiller4]

...and in other news, today is the "Latest Day, Ever."

Re:Overclock it

[spruce]

So in summary, if you overclock this chip, it will either be slower, or faster, or right in line with what you would expect.

Thanks!:)

Re:Personal PC's

[ActiveSX]

I just installed win98 on a computer for a friend (i am a mac user now)

I would be too after an experience like that.

skid marks

[drinkypoo]

"It ran so fast it left skid marks on my desktop!". How's that for fast?

Well I guess this one leaves skid marks in your pants.

No, that's a different kind of chip, mostly the kind made with olestra.

This is a chip from intel, so it leaves skid marks in your wallet.

Re:Overclock it

[uberdave]

I've never heard of overhyped threads, would you care to expound upon that a bit further?

Threads like "MPAA/RIAA, Content Protection and linking to DeCSS", "Microsoft is taking over the World", and this one.