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Pentium 4 Ramped to 1.7 GHz By C. Rogers, 05.01 Commentary The Pentium 4 has received a bad reputation in the past. We here at CALROG.COM have slandered this beast to death, ever since introduction. At the time of initial release until last month, it was very hard to even consider purchase of Intel's latest offering. The reasoning was simple: the Pentium 4 at 1.5 GHz was a poor performer when compared to the Athlon, a 1 GHz Pentium III, and not mention the price was astronomical. Any person willing to pay $600 for a CPU is likely on crank, or some other methamphetamine. Fortunately, a majority of PC enthusiasts are not, and have a bit of sense when it comes to choosing a CPU with the right performance/price ratio. Add this to the fact the existing Pentium 4 is on an already "aging" 423-pin platform, under a `Rambus monopoly` with all motherboards, and latency prone, it didn't take us much at CALROG.COM much to nit-pick every questionable feature. What we didn't point out was the scalability of the Pentium 4. While it has less performance per clock speed than the Pentium III, it is able to pust beyond 2.0 GHz+ frequencies without haste. Nonethless, Intel released the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 on April 23rd. This is the first respectable Pentium 4-- too bad it's on a socket layout that will expire when Northwood CPUs arrive. The clock speed is still not as impressive in terms of performance-comparison. In business and web creation benchmarks, the new Pentium 4 and Athlon-C at 1.33 GHz each hold about 50% share of the respective realms. When will the Pentium 4 gain acceptance? There is much debate over this. With the die-shrink to 0.13 microns, mainboards supporting DDR-SDRAM and clock speeds above 2 GHz, a substantial number of PC users this time next year may have Intel inside... |
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