Intel's P4 3GHz w/ 800MHz Bus & Canterwood Chips

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 14, 2003 @12:46AM from the faster-and-faster-it-goes dept.

OldGrayDave writes "Intel steps out today with their new Pentium 4 3GHz chip that runs on an 800MHz System Bus. They've also released "Canterwood", the chipset chipset for the P4 that supports Dual Channel DDR400 memory, native Serial ATA 150, RAID 0, AGP8X, USB2.0 and a host of other bells and whistles. Check out this showcase and performance analysis at HotHardware, to see what all the buzz is about. Intel distances themselves again from the Athlon." Or, you can read more at Hardavenue, mbreview, Tom's Hardware, hardware unlimited, or The Tech Report. I dunno...hardware gets faster, bus gets faster. Tide goes in, tide goes out.

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Re:What value are these new processors? by Planesdragon · 2003-04-14 01:22 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I leave my computer on 24/7 and do not like to reboot either which only hurts the situation.

Let's assume that you're running a desktop version of windows, which wasn't designed to be ran 24/7 without reboots--and that you don't leave all your programs open all the time.

I humbly suggest that you install SOME kind of memory management software. Or, alternately, schedule your PC to reboot itself at 5 am ever day, log in automatically, and then lock / turn on its screen saver / whatever else your security mechanism is.

I have a 700 mhz PC, and it's plenty fast for just about anything I do. Of course, I also shut the darn thing down when I'm not using it.