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

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Now We Can Test Serial ATA by MBCook · · Score: 3, Informative
    Now we can test serial ATA to see how good it REALLY is. Before now it's always been an add-in, either a card or built onto the motherboard. Now that it's built into the chipset it's not at the mercy of the PCI bus, where it has to deal with your soundcard, your tv tuner, that firewire card you bought, and everything else. This will also bring about more SATA drives now that it's going to be on so many motherboards (I know many have them now, but this is an Intel chipset. This will push everyone to do it if they're not already).

    That said, I'm disapointed that you only get 2 SATA channels. Remember, with SATA it's only one device per channel, unlike parallel ATA.

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    1. Re:Now We Can Test Serial ATA by shepd · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not in this case. The block diagram clearly shows the SATA controller gets 150 MB/s bandwidth, 12% more than the PCI bus.

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  2. 3 GHz Chip Delayed by lorax · · Score: 5, Informative

    News.com just updated their article on the chip to state that "a possible problem with the 3GHz Pentium 4, discovered at the last minute, forced the company to delay the chip late on Sunday."

  3. Re:400MHz FSB on Athlons is trivial by gamorck · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have a dual box I would recommend using "-j3" instead of "-j2". Typically "-j2" is the default for single CPU systems. Having make create one more thread than the number of processors you have allows you to make more efficient use of processor power. For example on my Dual Xeon with Hyperthreading turned on (looks like 4 cpus to linux and windows) I use "-j5" for maximum processor usage during the compilation process. When I turn off hyperthreading I typically use "-j3". I've found that these settings work very very well especially on Gentoo where you spend a lot of time compiling.

    Cheers,

    J

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  4. Chipset by devnullkac · · Score: 3, Informative
    They've also released "Canterwood", the chipset chipset for the P4...

    I wonder... How many chips could a chipset set if a chipset could set chips?

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