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Tom's Hardware End of Year CPU Roundup

Posted by michael on from the horses-under-the-hood dept.

Wister285 writes "Tom's Hardware has just posted one of their now famous CPU comparisons. Aside from looking at all of the nice graphs, they also compare the speeds of overclocked processors with their factory rated counterparts. It looks like the AMD chips just don't overclock as well as the Intel ones do, but when run at their specified level AMD almost always has the best price/performance ratio. Hopefully the upcoming year will be as promising in the processor sector as 2003 was!"

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  1. they should have said PC CPUs by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 5, Informative

    there is no PPC 970 on there.

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  2. Overclocking reviews by CTho9305 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Overclockability reviews are pointless for a couple of reasons. The first, of course, is that there are never any guarantees - not every one of the famed 300MHz celerons would run at 450MHz, and just because the few samples a reviewer tests overclock well (or poorly) does not mean that all chips will be similar.

    The other major problem is that review parts are often hand-picked, nullifying their value as indicators of overclockability completely.

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