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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Obligatory workstation zealot post by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-14 01:45 · Score: 0, Troll

This means nothing. The PeeCee architecture is simply not suited for any real computational tasks. Memory bandwith is limited. System bus speed is limited. Graphics performance is poor. Just the other day I performed a task on my Sun SPARCstation 1 that took only 14 seconds...on my friend's 3.06GHz P4 system it took 14 hours!

Yes my friends...the UNIX workstation is still king! None of this PeeCee rubbish for me!