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 orpheus2000 · 2003-04-14 00:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

*Sigh*, this argument comes up every time there's a new processor out.

There may be no pressing mainstream need for these processor's insane speeds now, but there are two things:

1) Niche markets which will utilize the higher speeds (video editing, photo editing, music production, scientific computing) and
2) the Future. Software will always find a way to use that extra power. We call it "bloat" normally, but then we usually forget about that and accept it as the norm and shun everyone who's running less than 2Ghz.

Better now? Move along