Intel's Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor

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It's time once again for the drip-drip-drip progression foretold by Moore's law to release another drop. After a breathtaking flurry of new chipset releases, including the 875P and 865 family, and after backfilling its processor line to include Hyper-Threading and 800MHz bus support across all its speed grades, Intel is ready to move its Pentium 4's top clock speed up a notch, to 3.2GHz. Perhaps you're thinking it's a little too soon for yet another Pentium 4 upgrade, but in truth, Intel hasn't ratcheted up the P4's top clock speed since last November, when the Pentium 4 3.06GHz debuted as the first P4 with Hyper-Threading support.

Since then, as in Dick Gephardt's campaign headquarters, all the activity has been elsewhere. Intel has upgraded its lineup of Pentium 4 processors and chipsets with an 800MHz bus, dual-channel DDR400 memory, ubiquitous Hyper-Threading, AGP 8X, and Serial ATA—to name just some of the improvements. The Pentium 4 platform practically pulses with bandwidth everywhere, and performance is up as a result.

We found the Pentium 4 3.0GHz chip to be a little bit faster overall than AMD's latest, the Athlon XP 3200+, in our last round of tests. Still, with a new 400MHz front-side bus and its own dual-DDR400 chipset in the nForce2 Ultra 400, the Athlon XP 3200+ is no slouch. The Athlon turned in the highest scores in many tests, and put up a heck of a fight for the overall crown.

News source: The Tech Report

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#1 kairon on 23 Jun 2003 - 10:39

Is there a 533 MHZ fsb version?or all new intel processos are 800 from now on?

#2 mcguirexn on 23 Jun 2003 - 10:52

i think they are all gonna be 800

#3 Truman on 23 Jun 2003 - 11:15

They are all 800mhz fsb

(2 replies) #4 rocks1985 on 23 Jun 2003 - 11:17

so much for only a 2 ghz mac processor. this will leave apple in the dust

#4.1 mAcOdIn on 23 Jun 2003 - 11:41

I don't think so, the powerPC is a good platform. Clock for clock it's better than thier PC counterparts, wether it can compete being a gig behind I don't know, but if a 2ghz Athlon can perform almost as well then I see no reason why the upcoming G5 can't, especially being a better architecture.

#4.2 PeterTHX on 24 Jun 2003 - 02:02

BETTER architecture?

DIFFERENT. Each has its pluses and minuses. Seeing as the base architecture (8086) is some 25 years old it's quite an accomplishment. Apple can't claim that.

#5 antsy on 23 Jun 2003 - 11:53

Wahoooooooooooo

(3 replies) #6 xStainDx on 23 Jun 2003 - 13:57

Show me the benchies, and show the me the death of the Althon XP!!

:evil laugh: bwahahahahahb

Conclusions
Having just written this review in one sitting with several pints of caffeine coursing through my veins, I have a hazy recollection of having just described a series of very bad things happening to an Athlon XP processor at the hands of Intel's newest Pentium 4.
Not pretty.

HEHE

DO DO DO DO!

Last edited by 335 on 23 Jun 2003 - 14:02

#6.1 JaggedFlame on 23 Jun 2003 - 17:31

Why are you so happy about something that's probably gonna jack up the prices of your Pentium 4?

#6.2 PeterTHX on 24 Jun 2003 - 02:01

New P4s are lower than that. Why would it jack up the price?

It's just that the AMD fanboys (& the company itself) are almost as obnoxious as the Apple zealots. It's fun to deflate them now and then.

#6.3 JaggedFlame on 24 Jun 2003 - 04:08

The death of the Athlon XP. It's sure to drive prices up.

#7 aristotle-dude on 23 Jun 2003 - 15:40

Funny, tthe C/NET article mentioned the 2 Ghz 970 and said they would be on par with this 3.2 Ghz P4. Only an 800 Mhz bus? Probably quad pumped too. I'd rather take a dual pumped 1 Ghz FSB 2 Ghz G5 aka 970.

#8 fdiaz2day on 23 Jun 2003 - 23:15

Slow Down! ...lol, anyways, too fast for me.

#9 Octol on 24 Jun 2003 - 04:46

The thing that pisses me off is that the 800MHz FSB processors and chipsets came so quickly on the heels of the 533MHz FSB devices that obviously the former were already in the works when Intel began selling the latter. Thus, Intel could have skipped the 533 FSB and gone directly to the 800, which would have made everybody happy. But noooo Intel had to try and hit everyone up for an extra upgrade. Or so it seems.

This defies all logic. The advances are now coming so fast that Intel didn't need to stick it to its customers like that. Newer, faster devices—and thus more bucks for Intel—would be coming along soon enough without them pulling that sh*t.

I'm not poor, but neither am I rich. And now I've just spent my upgrade money on an i7205 mobo, a P4 3.06 processor, and DDR266 memory. Does Intel think that I can afford to turn right around and buy an 875 mobo, an 800MHz processor, and DDR400 memory? Not.

Intel could've had both my money and my satisfaction. Instead they got the same amount of money and a pissed off customer in the bargain. Go figure.

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