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Intel 2 Gig Processor Review
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| Thu Feb 21, 2002 | 3:11P| PermaLink |
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This particular Pentium4 2.0 GHz uses the Williamette core and fits into the Socket m478 formfactor. At the time of this review, the cost of this chip alone is comparable to the cost of your average whitebox system. With a street price of about $620 CDN now, this processor obviously isn't for everyone. If you want top end Intel performance it's about the only option you have because while the Northwood P4's have been announced, they're still in short supply.
As we all know, with the introduction of the Pentium4, Intel introduced quite a bunch of new technologies such as the 400 MHz FSB, SSE2 and what they call Netburst Architecture. Don't be fooled, Netburst won't make your internet any faster or more vibrant, but it will speed up every application which is written for it. What happened with the P4 architecture is that the pipeline was been extended from 10 stages in the Pentium 3, to 20 stages in the Pentium 4.
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FULL STORY @
PCSTATS
(http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=974)
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