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

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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3 GHz Chip Delayed

[lorax]

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."

Re:400MHz FSB on Athlons is trivial

[gamorck]

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