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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. How about a... by Blimey85 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Beowulf cluster of these?!?!?!? Or hell, even a quad setup would be nice.

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    How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
  2. MOD PARENT UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this true???? I want a faster "Internet", too!

  3. to hell with everybody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i hate life. AMAZING DESTROY AWESOME. The ultimate murder time is go!!!!!!!!

    kill

    murder

    awesome

    painfulawfulsleeptime

    HardOCP has some great specs on hyperthreading versus non-hyperthreading. This isn't a joke, Intel looks to have done something really amazing here.

    murder

  4. I just clicked the goatse.cx link... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...for the first time.

    Hyperthreading? Good god, that wasn't just a thread that caused that, more like a friggin' rope!