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P4 3.2GHz Reviews
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.
"I also reserve the right to mock you for paying $300 for an extra 200MHz." -- Scott Wasson, TechReport.
Let me guess... It's a few percent faster than the 3.0ghz, and costs more.
Do I win a prize??
Is Intel trying to get laid by the best of the PC market by showing how fast it can swing by?
What happened to the days when CPU's would take their time, and get the jobs done the right way.
It's not like it can make your PC scream any faster or louder, or can it?
The pentium 4 architecture (heck the x86) is getting long in the tooth. I foresee intel's next market move :)
Intel Employee #1: We can't make our design any better! Intel Employee #2: Surely you jest. Intel Employee #1: No, but I have an idea. Intel Employee #2: What? I'm clueless! Intel Employee #1: Lets up the clock speed! Intel Employee #2: Touche!
(note this is not meant to be a flame, just a little humor)
- tristan
No...actually wowee zowee is a real word
wowÂee zoÂwee Pronunciation "wow" E - "zow" E adjective
Exhibiting a lack of wisdom or good sense; foolish. Otherwise known as "Slashdot effect" BR>
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Picture this....
Salesman: and this toaster makes toast .5 seconds faster
Me: great, how much?
Salesman: its double the price of the standard model
Me: Hmmmm
Compared to the older pentiums the new pentium IV performs all the same instructions in exactly the same way. You may sense a small speed increase; however you are not likely to notice it (unless you are upgrading from a 486DX2-66).
Integer performance has increased by (New Speed-OldSpeed)/OldSpeed * (OldBenchmark Score) - OldBenchMarkScore, as has floating point. However, the electricity bill also rose by the same percentage.
Pros: No one ever got fired for buying Intel!
Cons: It costs more than a used car!
64bit vs 32bit isn't really relevant for "consumers" (i wish there was another word for that).
Customers? Users? Muggles?
Nothing newsworthy in that really.
Thomas S. Iversen
yes of course, but the toast shop making that volume of toast would not be buying toasters built for home use. They would have a toaster farm probably running 'open toast' insted of winToast
"people"
Then, shouldn't you amend your .sig to "Guns don't
kill consumers, consumers kill consumers"?
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...
or the expanded dictionary entry:
1. Exhibiting a lack of wisdom or good sense; foolish. Otherwise known as "Slashdot effect"
2. Steve Ballmer on stage.
3. Al Gore attempting humor.
Antonym: Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
Posted by Hemos on 8:42 23 June 2003
from the cut-and-paste dept.
Nathan writes "Someone else asked us to redirect traffic to their site. We told them of course."
I have to agree. They're comparing a 2.2GHz AMD chip with a 3.2Ghz P4 and the AMD chip is holding it's own against a CPU that is an entire 1GHz faster in terms of clock speed. If they would A.) Compared the AMD chip with a 2.2 GHz P4 or B.) Compared the 3.2GHz P4 to a 3.2GHz Athlon, if one existed, then AMD would be far ahead. Which is why we recognise the Athlon as the supperior CPU.
---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"
Mod parent off topic. We're talkin' about toast now..not cpu's. :)
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I am getting SO TIRED of benchmark results being posted with y-axes that go from 2500 to 2600 showing the relative "improvement" of newer, faster cpu's when they ought to be scaled from 0 to X "mips", "flops" or whatevers so that you can see at a glance that the changes are or are not significant.
;)
Somewhere an Intel marketing-droid dies from a laughter-buffer overflow.
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
...nice try, Bill.
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