P4@1.5 GHz same speed as a PII@1GHz!!!

[Rags]

Hi Brian,

I agree with a lot of what you say, but not all

I agree, end of discussion.

Rags

[Novdid]

Two channel DDR is highly unlikley, not because it takes more PCB space but simply because DDR SDRAM has a much higher pincount than RDRAM.

[isochar]

DDR Ram has a much higher pin count, which translates into more traces on the PCB, which amounts to not enough space

[Technoid]

I had a 400W 2.03 ATX PS but i have ditched it in favor of an quiet normal ATX PS!
It howled like a banche on PMS!

[SteveC]

TheRegister have done their own attempts at a comparison. Now, they're not fans of either Intel or AMD - they hate them both!

Anyway,

3Dmark 2000 1.1
PIII 256Mb 6775 3Dmarks
PIII 512Mb 6939 3Dmarks
P4 256Mb 8866 3Dmarks
P4 512Mb 8915 3dmarks

Lookee here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14840.html


Also, this is quite a nice quote from theregister again:

Pentium III and Athlon have reached the point where an increase in clock speed generates heat rather than better performance. They are old technologies almost at the limit of their capabilities at 0.18 micron. A move to a smaller process will enable a few hundred more MHz to be wrung out of them, but they are both banging their heads on an absolute performance ceiling.

The P4 architecture (we can't bring ourselves to call it NetBurst ™ - sounds too much like a fruit drink) on the other hand has a great deal of growth potential. Compare the performance of the first Pentium Pros at 120MHz with today's top of the range 1GHz PIII chip and you'll see what we mean.

Today's P4 at 1.4GHz is the equivalent of the Pentium Pro's P6 architecture running at 120MHz - that should give you an idea of how fast this sucker will be running in a couple of years' time.

(found on http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14843.html )
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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 20 November 2000).]

[alessandro]

Anandtech P4 review:

For today's buyer, the Pentium 4 simply doesn't make sense. It's slower than the competition in just about every area, it's more expensive, it's using an interface that won't be the flagship interface in 6 - 9 months and it requires a considerable investment outside of the price of the CPU itself. Remember that you have to buy a new motherboard, new memory (if you don't get it bundled with a boxed CPU), and a new power supply/case. This is the investment that must be made in order to have a CPU that can't outperform any of today's top performers with the promise that tomorrow's Pentium 4 will be better.

[Himself]

Enermax 351 here, quiet as can be.

[Technoid]

The tempsensor was probably broken.
It was (and are but not in my case) a Seventeam GL400 PS.

The one i have now works as it should and is almost not audible.

[Rimfaxe]

Wow, thats alot of quotes...

Have you all read the sharkys p4 review?

He he. I know where he gets his money from !!!