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Pentium 4 at 1.8 GHz; Marginal Upgrade By C. Rogers, 08.01 It looks like Intel's doing some time-killing with its existing Pentium 4 line. Banking on the future "Northwood" core with a smaller die and using a 0.13 micron process, the existing "behemoth-cores" needed another clock speed ramp to stay competitive in the present market. Intel announced earlier last month the availability of the 1.8 and 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 CPUs. (Why Intel chose in their last release to skip 1.6 GHz and shoot for 1.7 GHz is beyond imagination). Both chips will run on the Socket 423 platform, and should be available by press time for the end-user market. The existing Pentium 4 line uses a quad-pumped 100 MHz bus, which equates to a theoretical 400 MHz front-side bus (FSB). Motherboards which use Pentium 4 chips cannot use a standard ATX power supplies; they use a special format called WTX, which is an almost-proprietary standard between 2 PSU manufacturers. At 1.8 GHz, performance gets more competitive with the lower-clock, but high performance 1.4 GHz Athlon . There is a neck-to-neck run in application benchmarks between these two respective CPUs, however the difference in price shows the Pentium 4 too be a lot more on the expensive side. |
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