[Rant] Pentium IV Prototype at 3.5 GHz | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Aug-2001 09:05 GMT by Christian Kemp | 41 comments View flat View list |
Solar (BAUD) wrote:
PPC vs x86, Intel vs AMD, believe me folks I´d like to see PPC rule the market, but this looks like x86 is here to stay. I think it´s interesting to see what will be tomorrow, even if it has little to do with Amiga today.
Yes, I know that GHz isn´t everything, but that´s a *lot* of GHz to make up for with superior (?) architecture...
From Heise Online:
"In the early morning, shortly after 8 AM local time, [Intel] presented a prototype of a 0.13µm Pentium-4 (Northwood), which - shortly - ran at 3.5 GHz.
On average, the IDF record breaking CPUs reach the market after roughly a year. The 2 GHz type that started production yesterday was also presented as a prototype on last year´s IDF. So we can expect the 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 in late summer 2002. In general, so Otellini, the architecture can be scaled up to 10 GHz."
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Posted by Tony Gore on 30-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 23 (nian): I agree partly with the fact that you need a fast graphics card like Geforce2 or Geforce3, but the CPU does play a part in your gaming experience. Just take a look at Croateam's "Serious Sam" (http://www.croateam.com). It is a fps, with single player, co-op, or deathmatch via internet or lan. This game has some really huge playfields and an enormous amount of activity on the screen. (Wish Croateam would come back to the Amiga market and port this for the new Amiga's) It's a really great fps game, but on lower MHz systems, just doesn't play as good. Even on this Ghz PC with 256MB Ram, it studders sometimes when playing online competition. So looking at what can be done with the hardware that's available, you can see why the push for even faster hardware. Although I'm sure a ported version of this game would run good on the current higher end PPC's with a good gfx card. |
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