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P4 3.2GHz Reviews

Posted by Hemos on from the tide-goes-in-tide-goes-out dept.

Nathan writes "The Intel 3.2GHz Pentium4 has passed its NDA with reviews coming out over the net, including this one at MBReview, This one at HardAvenue, This one at TweakTown and this review at HotHW." Yay. Benchmarks. Wowee-zowee.

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  1. Re:Yes, we do care. by shrubsky · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > OK, what are they? And don't say games, I'm
    > talking about professional uses for a desktop.

    All righty, here I am -- a computing professional. I need >450MHz for my tasks of...
    1) Simulating a multi-hundred-thousand gate VHDL design
    2) Synthesis of the same (target == Xilinx XC2V1000)
    3) Place-and-Route of the output of (2)
    4) Backup of important data to server -- backup uses compression and a faster CPU makes a big difference when you're compressing hundreds of MB.

    I do this stuff every day. And, please, don't say it. Tasks 1-3 are serial in nature so SMP won't help.

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