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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. And yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    $760 for it... A bit much for that "little extra," isn't it? You could build a fairly powerful AMD (or even Celeron) machine with that money... twice.

  2. Re:Overclocked by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Informative
    Well you can't compare a CPU against a computer. A more interesting comparison would be the new IBM chips against these ones. Still, CPU benchmarks of that type are interesting in an academic fashion only, they can always be contested (for not using the right optimizations etc).

    I dunno why people focus so much on CPU benchmarks. Why can't I have a faster BIOS? I want a machine that passes control to the OS bootloader in under a second. Instead, if anything, it takes longer and longer with every machine I try - a second or two staring at the NVidia copyright notice, a few more seconds staring at the bios, quick memory check, autodetect devices. Some system info, some beeps, some whirrs, some clicks, then finally the OS starts loading. Of course that takes ages as well.

    If we are capable of making such insanely fast pieces of electronics, why the hell is the rest so slow?

  3. German Reviews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Find some German Reviews at www.hardtecs4u.com, www.computerbase.de, www.hartware.de und www.hardware-mag.de.

    Looks, as there is no chance for an AMD 3200+ Systeme to win a round. Hope it will change with the athlon 64 ;)

  4. Other reviews by markhagan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Extreme Overclocking: they actually overclocked the engineering sample. ha! kind of a pricy risk if you ask me. More reviews here, here and here.

  5. Other sources by corvi42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who care, there is also a comparison of AMD 3200+ to P4 3.2 GHz at tomshardware: here

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  6. Re:Overclocked by d^2b · · Score: 4, Informative
    Want a faster BIOS? Perhaps you want LinuxBIOS From the link
    It does a minimal amount of hardware initialization before jumping to the kernel start and lets Linux do the rest. As a result, it is much faster (current record 3 seconds)
    And yes, apparently it boots Windows 2000 too.
  7. Re:Meh by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 4, Informative
    Macs of today still feature Motorola 68k emulation so that they can run software written for those chips, for OS 9 and for OS X...... Windows XP (the equivalent of OS X in terms of consumer accessibility and reliability), on the other hand, has terrible backwards compatibility

    Well, iirc Classic mode is basically running the complete OS 9 in a VM. But by this logic, Windows is perfectly backwards compatable because you can run any previous version inside VMware.

    So, to measure how backwards compatable an OS is, running complete old versions inside a VM is to me cheating. You should test how well old apps run in the same environment as modern apps. By this measure, Windows scores pretty well.