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Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz CPU Review

[ 06/23/03 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

Intel announced one more Pentium 4 processor supporting 800MHz bus and Hyper-Threading technology, which proved to be the today’s fastest desktop processor. This is the last Pentium 4 based on Northwood core, but it nevertheless managed to simply destroy poor Athlon XP 3200+.

Intel Pentium 4 2.4C Overclocking

[ 06/04/03 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

By overclocking new Pentium 4 2.4C supporting 800MHz bus and Hyper-Threading technology, we are trying to answer the following questions: Is it possible to get beyond 800MHz bus frequency? How does it tell on the system performance? How big is the overclocking potential of the new D1 core stepping? Get the answers here!

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU with 400MHz Bus Review

[ 05/13/03 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

We reviewed a new AMD processor, which is none other but AMD’s response to Intel Pentium 4 3.0 with 800MHz bus. Just like Intel, AMD has also increased the bus frequency and Athlon XP 3200+ now works with 400MHz PSB. Now let’s find out if the new bus will be able to help improve the performance of the new AMD processor.

AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview

[ 04/18/03 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

We managed to get our hands on an engineering sample of the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor. We couldn’t help testing it, of course! In this article we are going to discuss the major features and benchmarks results for this processor.

New Products from Intel: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus, Intel 875 and Intel 865 Chipsets Review

[ 04/13/03 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

We reviewed all the newest products from Intel: Pentium 4 3.0GHz processor with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus, Intel 875 and Intel 865 chipsets aka Canterwood and Springdale respectively. These products proved close to perfection. Learn more about the world’s fastest processors and chipsets now!