im curious on the review of the P4 on sysopt

[GroundZero3]

i was reading thru the review on the p4 1.5 ghz and i was looking at the graphs and the question popped in "Why did they compare it to a t-bird 950 mhz chip and a pIII 933 mhz? wouldn't they want to compare it to a 1.4 ghz t-bird or 1.2 ghz?"

I mean already know that the 1.5 ghz is faster than 900 mhz


im really surpised how the t-brid beat the p4 tho. espically in rc5-64 and some games

Jason

[This message has been edited by GroundZero3 (edited 02-27-2001).]

[TechJumper]

The way these more ..."generic" brands of processors if you will outbeat the Pentium is quite startling.


Perhaps intel should spend less on advertising and more on the core hardware of their processor, I fear, or hope http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif that soon AMD will become a MAJOR competitor of theirs, much larger than they are now.


The world is turning from Hype to quality, i cna't wait to see the outcome!


Michael

[CMonster]

I asked a very similar question and as it turned out the answer was quite simple: The reviewer (God bless him) is not independently wealthy and was using the only machines readily available to him for the comparison.

The benchmarks do illustrate how much the P4 1.5ghz can outperform a T-bird 950, which does give an overall idea of the performance.

I have heard several reports of people who have successfully clocked their T-bird 1.2ghz to 1.4ghz - now that is a comparison I would really like to see.

My thought is that the P4 may be the 486SX all over again - Intel sells a crippled CPU and once the infrastructure is in place they will come out with a "killer" upgrade "the P4-II" (read 1.8-2ghz and tons of L2 cache) that everyone just has to have -simply plug it in your existing board and go...

...but then you can't just throw away that old slow P4-I so you buy another Intel chipset based motherboard and build a second system around that.... and so the cycle goes, the economy stays strong, and Intel executives retire in style.

[Szech]

This is a fun comparison. Tom compares the P4 to a 1.6 Ghz (read that again) Thunderbird system.
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/01q1/010219/index.html

[GroundZero3]

makes sense CMonster http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Jason