| [Rant] Pentium IV Prototype at 3.5 GHz | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 29-Aug-2001 09:05 GMT by Christian Kemp | 41 comments
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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 Mike Pearson on 02-Sep-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 40 (sutro):
Various comments Re: to Previous comments. A Hodge-Podge.
Yes it is true that the 040's were too fast for the harddrive to spin up and now I have an '060 with a 10,000 Rpm seagate and it takes 3-4 reboots to give the harddrive time to spin up, it took 3 reboots for the IBM 7,200 rpm to spin up.
This is compounded by having OxyPatcher which requires a reboot to put the patch in the first command (?) space.
SCSI's are much better though the true advantages are lost on the Average consumer, and this includes most business. Not only is the transfer time better, but CPU usage is less because the hard disk has it's own chip, this is one of the reasons it is more expensive. If you are using other cpu intensive programs, this would be a benefit.
Also, your IDE transfer speed is only as great as ypur slowest IDE device. That is if you have an IDE ZIP drive attached, it isn't even ATAPI and hence any device attached to that bus will transfer only at the bus speed of the original IDE spec that rules the zip. That's one of the reasons some have an add-on extra IDE controller. That's why some of us buy scsi ZIPs.
My Seagate is quieter than any of my PC's and my Amiga 2500 case is never on. (I have no idea where it is anymore) Boy do they run HOT though, once it's been on for an hour, you can't pick it up, hence PC users should have extra coolers.
I also have replaced my scsi's less than my IDE drives. (I hope that's not a jinx!) |
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