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Looking Forward to Intel's Grantsdale and Alderwood

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pci-express-and-onboard-wireless dept.

VL writes "Over the next several days, you'll be hearing a lot about Intel's significant upgrade to the Pentium 4 platform. Soon enough, that brand new Canterwood board you have will be yesterday's news as two new words will be on the lips of all enthusiasts... Grantsdale and Alderwood."

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  1. Anandtech Review by hattig · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=2088

    Very weak, Athlon FX 53 thrashes a 3.6GHz Prescott on i925 in gaming, and simply beats it in a lot of other areas.

  2. Yes, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...BIOS support for USB keyboards and mice has been standard for quite a while now. I've used a USB keyboard on my PC to make changes in BIOS for quite some time.

  3. Re:And I miss the ISA bus by W2k · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) The fastest possible CPU, in *true* GHz, not in AMD's inflated "+" bogoghz.

    No problem. AMD already publishes the true clock speeds of all their CPU's. The "3400+" or whatever you've seen is a model name, not a measurement of clock speed but rather of performance. AMD explains it here. Your post suggest that you are unaware of the fact that other things than clock speed have a significant impact on the performance of a CPU.

    Next you'll be complaining that car makers name their cars cryptic things like "320Ci", "XC90" or "GT40" instead of naming each car according to its BHP rating.

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    Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.