Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz - The Real Slim Shady
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 23, 2003 11:23 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
FSB Scaling - The Pentium 4
AMD wasn't the only one to introduce a higher speed FSB, prior to the XP 3200+ launch Intel introduced the first 800MHz FSB Pentium 4s at speeds ranging from 2.4 - 3.00GHz. The fastest FSB Pentium 4s were introduced alongside the 875P and 865PE series of chipsets; we've already covered these chipsets in great detail as well as already published a roundup of the first 20 875P/865PE motherboards to hit our labs.
We've briefly taken a look at what the 800MHz FSB can offer for the Pentium 4, but with this review we're able to see exactly how much the Pentium 4 benefited from increasing its FSB past the introductory 400MHz frequency.
In order to be as thorough as possible, we even threw in a 600MHz FSB which will give you an idea of which cases the 800MHz FSB is overkill and where it isn't. Also remember that Intel will be using a 667MHz FSB in future Xeon processors so these numbers are also more useful than just an analytical tool:
Here the Pentium 4 shows exactly how much of its performance today is courtesy of improvements that Intel has made to the platform overall and not just the CPU. Although we didn't explicitly compare the 800MHz FSB to the 533MHz FSB here, you can find those numbers in our Pentium 4 3.0C Review.
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - link
Atari 2600 Rules!Anonymous User - Sunday, September 7, 2003 - link
i love how you see amd chips compared directly to intel ones which cost 8 times as much - and then they say that the intel 'kicked arse' - also optimised code compared to unoptimised (ala sandra)i think ill write a review 'dual AMD 3200+ = intel killer - kicks the p3-1000 arse' just wait till you see how extended 3dnow+ is going whomp intels mmx1 hehehe
Jeff7181 - Saturday, August 30, 2003 - link
#11... the review on the 3.0C used PC800 RDRAM's and this one uses DDR400. That's one difference... they may have also used slightly different options for testing since they seem to customize the benchmark.Anonymous User - Saturday, August 23, 2003 - link
Read Tomsharware review and xbitlabs and youll see how the p4 flies above those athlonsAnonymous User - Saturday, August 23, 2003 - link
I think INTEL and their last line of Pentium 4 really kick AMD athlon ass ... and very hard ...Anonymous User - Friday, August 8, 2003 - link
Hello,I was wondering if any of you guys knows how to overclock the P4 2.8GHz on a I875PBZ MOBO
Why the bios under the same board are so limited?
Can the Intel MOBO 875PBZ upgrade my CPU?
Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 5, 2003 - link
Why is there such a large difference in the UT2003 benchmark results between this review and that of the P4 3.0C? Hmm...Anonymous User - Saturday, August 2, 2003 - link
Pictures does not work on XP using IE either.Anonymous User - Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - link
Another web site did testing on the same two chips and the p4 came out on top.If you want to see it go to tomshardware and read for yourselves.Anonymous User - Sunday, July 20, 2003 - link
What really buggers me off is that I can't see any of the attached images in this article as I am using Opera 7.11 on a linux box. Please make your site all OS- and browser-compatible. (At least to some extent anyway). Not everyone uses IE and Windows.