Here are two reviews for you reading pleasure about Intel's new baby, the Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz. Anandtech: With the introduction of the 800MHz, Intel has put the nail in the Athlon XP's coffin - whatever chances AMD had at regaining the performance crown with the Athlon XP were lost when Intel introduced the 865PE and 875P platforms. Luckily for AMD, the Athlon 64 is just around the corner but it's clear who the winner of the Northwood vs. Barton battle is. FiringSquad: Therefore, we?ve got to give the performance crown to Intel at this point. As time has passed, AMD has used its processor rating system to grow at a slower rate. Sure, the bus speed and cache improvements have certainly improved the processor?s overall performance, but when Intel is improving its bus speed and jumping in increments of 200MHz on its processors, the 30MHz ?step? AMD just undertook with the Athlon XP 3200+ pales in comparison. AMD is essentially doing just enough to get by, and it?s beginning to show. Read More for more reviews.
HardTecs4U: (german):Intel führt mit dem 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 heute einen Prozessor mit 200 MHz gesteigertem Takt in den Markt ein und steigert damit das Taktverhältnis zu ihrem bisherigen 3 GHz Spitzenmodell um 6,25%. Dass dies aber nicht bedeutet, dass die verwendeten Applikationen damit gleich um 6,25 % nach oben skalieren, belegten unsere Benchmarks. Nachstehend haben wir dies tabellarisch aufbereitet. Hexus.Net:On a purely subjective basis, would we buy this processor? Probably not. We're sure that it will arrive in the retail channel soon after this review is live, but at what cost? We've seen numerous instances of 2.4 and 2.6GHz Cs hitting 3.2GHz+ at default voltage, yet to further substantiate our claims about the Northwood's MHz ceiling, we haven't seen that many over 3.6GHz on air. It seems as if most 800FSB Northwoods are hewn from the same production line.
HardTecs4U: (german):Intel führt mit dem 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 heute einen Prozessor mit 200 MHz gesteigertem Takt in den Markt ein und steigert damit das Taktverhältnis zu ihrem bisherigen 3 GHz Spitzenmodell um 6,25%. Dass dies aber nicht bedeutet, dass die verwendeten Applikationen damit gleich um 6,25 % nach oben skalieren, belegten unsere Benchmarks. Nachstehend haben wir dies tabellarisch aufbereitet. Hexus.Net:On a purely subjective basis, would we buy this processor? Probably not. We're sure that it will arrive in the retail channel soon after this review is live, but at what cost? We've seen numerous instances of 2.4 and 2.6GHz Cs hitting 3.2GHz+ at default voltage, yet to further substantiate our claims about the Northwood's MHz ceiling, we haven't seen that many over 3.6GHz on air. It seems as if most 800FSB Northwoods are hewn from the same production line.
