Pentium 4 2Ghz Released

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dammit! When will AMD cut their prices in response.
I want an Athlon 1.4 for ~$90-100 STAT!!!

I have to say the 2GHz is a nice P4, really. I use AMD because it's so much cheaper, and looking at the prices the way they are, with the TBird 1.4 @ $110, and the P4 2G @ ~$550 or something, well I can't fathom spending $400 more for equal performance just for the Intel logo.
For the VIA bashers, buy the SiS chipset, or wait for the nForce, or buy the new revision of the ALi which looks pretty good. There are more choices than VIA you know...

I am glad AMD and Intel are battling for the performance crown, it's good for all of us.

booyaka

"Looks like thanks to a superior FPU still has the Athlon beating out the Pentium 4 in several FPU intensive applications"

I'm not convinced that statement is entirely accurate, perhaps it should have read more like: In certain synthetic benchmarks, the Athlon still outperforms the P4 due to the lack of SSE2 optimization......

Its like I told a friend the other day, it isn't AMD that's keeping me away from AMD, its VIA. And don't think that just because I own an NVidia chipset'd video card means I'll drool all over that nforce crap they're coming out with.

AMD needs to make their own mobo chipset for their own CPU. I'm sure VIA and AMD has a close relationship, but I'm tired of every .readme citing problems with "VIA chipset incompatability". Is this because everybody is designing their peripherals to be compatible with Intel's chipsets, and VIA is suffering because of it? There have been enough VIA boards in the past 4 years that any sizeable PC peripheral manufacturer would have Q/A'd their product on an AMD/VIA board.

They don't have to be overcharging jerks about their mobo chipsets like Intel, they just need to get it done.

If you have an AMD/VIA rig and it runs great, I'm happy for you. Save your time and don't post, because we all know you people exist. I have friends at work who say the same thing. If you think I'm overcharged for Intel products, then great, I agree with you. Nice thing about AMD lately is that they've been bringing the prices down for the Intel-loyal of us. And to answer your question, yes I would rather pay more for an Intel setup than less for an AMD/VIA setup. If you've read this paragraph and you still have a legitimate point that I've answered, then post away.

Whocares :) Wait for Doom III to see what CPU is best for that game.

Intel ofcourse ;)

Hmmm, Anandtech and HardOCP seem to run tests that show the athlon ahead while firing squad shows Intel ahead in others. I wish there was a standard test setup for ALL sites =)

I just saw the HardOCP review of the P4 2GHz, and it meets the concensus: pretty even with the 1.4GHz T-Bird overall, but much more expensive. Only the physical package is really better (and if you end up chipping a T-Bird, you're not being careful enough).

I feel the need... the need.. for speed!

Will we have to wait for Xeon 2GHz's to get some dual 2GHz lovin?
Or are we just waiting for a dual socket 478 mobos?

Heh Quake 3 at 240+ FPS.....

and say good night to AMD

it be nice if i could connect to http://www.theregister.co.uk/

And so the P4 finally begins to stretch its wings. Between now and next summer is when AMD is going to struggle the most. Northwood (.13u P4 with increased cache) will arrive in November allowing the P4 to start hitting crazy high clock speeds. The current Athlon core (palomino - which isnt even widely available yet)) will realistically top out somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1.8 ghz. AMD isnt going to hit .13u until late next spring/early summer. AMD needs to get their next generation chip out on the street and it had better be another homerun hit like the athlon was. In fact, it might even need to be a more decisively superior chip than the athlon. A lot of the athlons initial success was due to intels manufacturing/supply disaster in the fall/spring of 1999/2000. I hope they're not a one hit wonder (my investment in them hopes this true even more).

You know what, even if they did finally put out a P4 that clearly smokes the Athlon, it would still be too expensive. Athlon 1.4Ghz listing at Pricewatch = 107 bucks.

http://www.viahardware.com/686b_3.shtm

oh this is nice to hear, i knew those sb live cards are crap...

Flame on, Im gone.

Got 2ghz allready, yeh, i like.

THIS JUST IN...2 GHz Pentium 4 is FASTER then the 1.5 GHz P4!!!!

How many megahertz does a P4 need to beat an Athlon on every application except Q3?

Answer: 700 MHz

I don't want to be first.

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