Intel to launch 1.8GHz Pentium 4 in July

[Kabuki]

Tualatin is also the name of a town about twenty minutes south of the Intel Rondler Acres facility in Aloha, Oregon. Also, Willamette is the name of the river and valley running from Albany, through Salem, and on to Portland in Oregon. Neat, huh? of course the codenames for all sorts of intel products are from various facilities, and the areas surrounding them...

[SysOpt]

Hmm.. I lived in Portland for 6 months - I knew Intel was there but I didn't put two and two together .

[Ritalin Kid]

Great now if they could just bump it up 100 mghx or so they might be able to match the AMD 1.4 chips.

[The Highlander]

If intel could stop changing the cpu pin array it would be easier to upgrade!!!!

[joeliam]

To The Highlander,

That's the whole idea, otherwise it would be TOO easy to go from one processor to another. But if you change the MOBO, RAM, CPU, video requirements, heck you are buying a NEW PC.

[Spanky]

Yep I hate that ****, Its taking me forever to upgrade cause I'm stuck with this crappy LX board that only lets me go to a p2 333, and thats what I have.

I'm buying a new board this month though, something for running a Duron/Athlon with ata100 and maybe raid.

I know athlons are just as fast if not faster in some applications but I wish AMD would catch up in the MHZ war again. They are getting pretty far behind.

[jadison]

I agree, that it is a lot more difficult to upgrade the Intel CPU's as opposed to the AMD, I know, I've had both. Right now I have a 1.2 GHZ Athlon, and I'm happy w/what I've got. It also doesn't seem like Intel's chips are performing as well as they should be. I also don;t know what they're marketing strategy is, shouldn't be easier to upgrade a computer, rather than changing the CPU every year like Intel is doing? Athlon based systems have been easier to upgrade, and I'll keep sticking w/'em

[ApacheJoe]

Does the launch of the 1.8 processor herald an improvement in the platform's ability to outperform AMD or PIII in "current" applications? Optimized programs for Piv are still too far and too few to justify the upgrade. I seem to recall earlier reports that as Intel brought the Piv up to the 2.0 gHZ mark, a change in chip architecture would also occur, changing from the current 423 pin arry to something like 492. Or maybe they will wait until later in the year, closer to the big buying extravaganza called Christmas, to force another MOBO upgrade on the unsuspecting

[Brain]

What about the new 64-bit Itanium chip(IA-64) set to come out at the end of 2001. This will squash all 32-bit chipsets as well as all 32-bit versions of Windows. By the end of 2002 the old 32 machines will be toys for your kids.

[AndreRIO]

i don't know about you, but i have a pretty good computer (1,300mhz amd). i think i will wait for the pentium 4 2ghz to come.

[SeRViDOS]

This is pretty lame amd is produccing equal if not better chips this time around. Bad part is just so intel can keep some of its
bussiness it just labels another chip as a higher speed they cruch and it makes the chip less stable its a pathetic atempt by intel.

[SeRViDOS]

This is pretty lame amd is producing equal if not better chips this time around. Bad part is just so intel can keep some of its
bussiness it just labels another chip as a higher speed they cruch and it makes the chip less stable its a pathetic atempt by intel.

[SeRViDOS]

This is pretty lame amd is producing equal if not better chips this time around. Bad part is just so intel can keep some of its
bussiness it just labels another chip as a higher speed they cruch and it makes the chip less stable its a pathetic atempt by intel.