Intel Quietly Introduces 3.8GHz P4

BatonRogue writes "I didn't see this anywhere else, but it looks like Intel has quietly launched their Pentium 4 570J running at 3.8GHz. The J denotes Intel's Execute Disable Bit support, which they have also quietly introduced (it seems to save face of being 2nd to support it behind AMD). AnandTech seems to be the only place to have a review of the 570J. It performs reasonably well and even better than AMD in some areas, while falling behind in things like games. AnandTech has a nice one page benchmark comparison of the 570J to AMD's 4000+ as a quick reference."

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How the mighty have fallen!

[boringgit]

I can't help but be amused at the way Intel have had to "sneak" the fastest model of their Flagship processor out of the door.

Does anybody remember a few years ago, the Athlon was outperforming anything Intel had to offer, yet they still claimed it was only competing with the Celeron.

Re:I can guess why...

[ScrewMaster]

Yeah, gaming and high-end CAD. Seriously, the truth is that AMD and Intel could have milked the performance market for another ten years (much like Microsoft is still milking the desktop GUI market) but now, even commodity PCs are so fast that the mass market isn't feeling the slightest pressure to upgrade. At least, they aren't upgrading their CPUs. Printers, cameras, MP3 players, sound cards, WiFi ... sure. But for the vast majority of applications the current crop of CPUs is just total overkill.