Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 02:55:56 01/09/02
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hi nolan: it would be a great idea to post scores (fritzmark, tigermark or any other widely used chessbenchmark). you are probably one of very few on this forum who actually have the new northwood and it would be interesting to obtain the scores on a northwood 2.2 as well as in the overclocked mode. this could then be compared with the latest athlons (1900+, 2000+, overclocked speeds), which a lot of people on this forum have.(i believe there are athlons at actual speeds of >1800mhz floating around! from the reviews i've read i'm quite certain that the latest northwood might even top the latest athlon at the stock settings. rajen rajen. On January 09, 2002 at 04:01:09, Nolan Denson wrote: >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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