CCW
02-04-2004, 06:53 AM
Review Quote:
Remember back in November of 2000 when the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 first came to light? Massive memory bandwidth, a juiced clock frequency, and countless architectural improvements promised a new era of performance. However, real-world tests on the fledgling processor revealed that in many cases, the 1.2GHz AMD Athlon, and indeed 1GHz Intel Pentium III, were still faster. Only later, as Intel improved the technology and augmented the chip's speed, did it become an attractive platform.
Read it here (http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1535).
Remember back in November of 2000 when the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 first came to light? Massive memory bandwidth, a juiced clock frequency, and countless architectural improvements promised a new era of performance. However, real-world tests on the fledgling processor revealed that in many cases, the 1.2GHz AMD Athlon, and indeed 1GHz Intel Pentium III, were still faster. Only later, as Intel improved the technology and augmented the chip's speed, did it become an attractive platform.
Read it here (http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1535).