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Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Falcon4 on August 27, 2001, 11:41:31 AM: whoa, man i just heard that a new intel chip has recently hit 2 ghz, breaking records... will that be a pentium 4?

or pentium5?
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Black Samurai on August 27, 2001, 11:45:43 AM: Pentium 4

Its too early for the P5 to be released. I think we might hit upwards of 5ghz before the P5 is released.
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: videoholic on August 27, 2001, 12:08:29 PM: Isn\'t that funny how long it took to hit 1 ghz and they doubled it in a year. Amazing. What is my kid going to see in 5 years. Ouch. He isn\'t even going to want to mess with the PS2 because it will be crap.
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Falcon4 on August 27, 2001, 12:09:08 PM: nice. well it still is a pretty big step in processing technology, 2 ghz is alot of processing power (but yet i know i will be laughing at 2 ghz when im 40.)

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Isn\'t that funny how long it took to hit 1 ghz and they doubled it in a year. Amazing. What is my kid going to see in 5 years. Ouch. He isn\'t even going to want to mess with the PS2 because it will be crap.

and yet ps2 is nowhere near 1 ghz processign speed, it still is coming out with the best looking games so far.
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Jar O Pickles on August 27, 2001, 04:04:37 PM: i will be the proud owner of one of these bad boys by the end of the week hopefully.. ive gotta try and unload my 450 p3 before i buy a 2ghz
anyone interested in puchasing a 450mhz pentium 3 with 128mb ram dvd player and nice speakers???
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: nO-One on August 27, 2001, 04:08:21 PM: pfft

Buy AMD

AMD powarr
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Falcon4 on August 27, 2001, 04:13:47 PM: Quote
Originally posted by nO-One
pfft

Buy AMD

AMD powarr

not against this 2 ghz monster that runs cooler!!!:laughing: :laughing: :D

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i will be the proud owner of one of these bad boys by the end of the week hopefully.. ive gotta try and unload my 450 p3 before i buy a 2ghz
anyone interested in puchasing a 450mhz pentium 3 with 128mb ram dvd player and nice speakers???

who do you work for inorder to get one of those baby\'s so soon? intel???!??!?!
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: EmperorRob on August 27, 2001, 04:23:30 PM: RUN UR COMPUTOR MACHENE WIT ADM TAHLON 266 DDRRRR!!
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: EmperorRob on August 27, 2001, 04:25:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Falcon4
not against this 2 ghz monster that runs cooler!!!:laughing: :laughing: :D
Right now it runs $562
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Falcon4 on August 27, 2001, 04:44:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by EmperorRob
Right now it runs $562

ya know im not getting one so i dont care!!! i just love to see intel beat AMD..!!!!! amd is baaaaaaaddddddd.;)
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: nO-One on August 27, 2001, 05:02:54 PM: heh heh

AMD isn\'t bad, they still beat Intel when it comes to raw FPU calculations, Intel only beats AMD when the code has been heavily SSE.2 optimized.

The P4 ain\'t bad, it\'s just not as scalable as the Athlon, it runs hotter because it doesn\'t have an heat spreader like the Pentium has, but that also lowers cost, and helps when you cool the proc with an acceptible heatsink.

And the thing to keep in mind is that the current socket423 which Intel uses wil be scrapped in a short while in favour of socket478 and Intel won\'t support it any more, unlike AMD who will continue to use it\'s SocketA bus for some time.

(altough the ironic thing is, that AMD licensed the EV6 (socketA) bus from Alpha, then Intel bought Alpha, so AMD is using an Intel bus)

AMD is the way to go my friend.
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Jar O Pickles on August 27, 2001, 05:05:39 PM: gateway has them you can order now and get it the first week in sept.

what do u guys think is a good asking price for my old comp. cause i have no clue any sugestions?
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: videoholic on August 27, 2001, 05:47:30 PM: I just watched a bit on screen savers about the new chip and they pulled up some stats over at anandtech. They did benchmarks and the 2ghz is still benchmarking at less than AMD\'s 1.4 ghz.

Though tthat was pretty interesting. Oh yeah, and much more expensive and RDram is so freaking expensive too.
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Jar O Pickles on August 27, 2001, 06:50:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by nO-One
heh heh

AMD isn\'t bad, they still beat Intel when it comes to raw FPU calculations, Intel only beats AMD when the code has been heavily SSE.2 optimized.

The P4 ain\'t bad, it\'s just not as scalable as the Athlon, it runs hotter because it doesn\'t have an heat spreader like the Pentium has, but that also lowers cost, and helps when you cool the proc with an acceptible heatsink.

And the thing to keep in mind is that the current socket423 which Intel uses wil be scrapped in a short while in favour of socket478 and Intel won\'t support it any more, unlike AMD who will continue to use it\'s SocketA bus for some time.

(altough the ironic thing is, that AMD licensed the EV6 (socketA) bus from Alpha, then Intel bought Alpha, so AMD is using an Intel bus)

AMD is the way to go my friend.

WORD
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 28, 2001, 07:35:54 AM: What do you think will be the speed of Intel proccesors for next summer?
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Toxical on August 28, 2001, 07:44:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Adan
What do you think will be the speed of Intel proccesors for next summer?

2.5 Ghz. :laughing:
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: RichG on August 28, 2001, 09:11:22 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Toxical

2.5 Ghz. :laughing:

Yeah somewhere around there probably.
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: Evi on August 28, 2001, 03:07:50 PM: MHz doesn\'t mean jack sh** to chip power. But I\'ve said that 20 times already. There are computers faster than that, and they aren\'t 2 GHZ. It just makes it sound impressive. Never mind...
Title: INTEL CHIP HITS 2 ghz?
Post by: nO-One on August 28, 2001, 04:03:48 PM: They\'re called Alpha\'s and Ultra Sparcs.

The Mhz only really matters when you compare similar processors, but when people are comparing completly different architectures (CISC vs RISC, and x86 vs PPC etc..) they have to look deeper and look how deep the pipeline is, how much FPU power it\'s got etc...