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I'm starting to wonder after I read the review at Anandtech, and I bet Tom won't go easier on Intel... The conclusion there was:
"For today's buyer, the Pentium 4 simply doesn't make sense. It's slower than the competition in just about every area, it's more expensive, it's using an interface that won't be the flagship interface in 6 - 9 months and it requires a considerable investment outside of the price of the CPU itself. Remember that you have to buy a new motherboard, new memory (if you don't get it bundled with a boxed CPU), and a new power supply/case. This is the investment that must be made in order to have a CPU that can't outperform any of today's top performers with the promise that tomorrow's Pentium 4 will be better."
To me, it doesn't even sound as if PIV will keep Intel floating. I was hoping for PIV to force AMD to crank out faster CPUs, but right now it looks like they can hit cruise control and roll in cash on 1.2GHz/760 DDR combo. Am I just too unoptimistic? I wouldn't buy a PIV, bundled with the most expensive and useless memory structure ever, and I can't think of any reason why anyone else would, except those truly unintelligent who think "1.5 > 1.2 = better. Me buy PIV. Ugh!" but I doubt they'd have that much money to spend on it anyway...
Kjella
"For today's buyer, the Pentium 4 simply doesn't make sense. It's slower than the competition in just about every area, it's more expensive, it's using an interface that won't be the flagship interface in 6 - 9 months and it requires a considerable investment outside of the price of the CPU itself. Remember that you have to buy a new motherboard, new memory (if you don't get it bundled with a boxed CPU), and a new power supply/case. This is the investment that must be made in order to have a CPU that can't outperform any of today's top performers with the promise that tomorrow's Pentium 4 will be better."
To me, it doesn't even sound as if PIV will keep Intel floating. I was hoping for PIV to force AMD to crank out faster CPUs, but right now it looks like they can hit cruise control and roll in cash on 1.2GHz/760 DDR combo. Am I just too unoptimistic? I wouldn't buy a PIV, bundled with the most expensive and useless memory structure ever, and I can't think of any reason why anyone else would, except those truly unintelligent who think "1.5 > 1.2 = better. Me buy PIV. Ugh!" but I doubt they'd have that much money to spend on it anyway...
Kjella