Author: Nolan Denson
Date: 01:01:09 01/09/02
Final Words There are two things you can take away from this review; the first is that the Northwood core has been long overdue and now that it is here, the Pentium 4 is a much more competitive processor. We were able to reach speeds of 2.64GHz, air cooled, with our 2.2GHz processor using a 120MHz FSB and bumping up the voltage to 1.625V. The 512KB L2 cache improves performance by 5 - 9% across the board which isn't bad. Combined with additional frequency headroom and the promise of future applications having much larger footprints than the ones we've benchmarked today, the Northwood core is exactly what the Pentium 4 needed. While the processor may still not be the most affordable, it is finally competitive enough where a user wouldn't be able to tell the difference in speed between one and the fastest Athlon XP. Next up for the desktop Pentium 4 will be its 533MHz FSB which we've already shown to offer a more than decent performance improvement.
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