To: Dan3 who wrote (142731 ) 9/4/2001 8:00:02 PM From: wanna_bmw Read Replies (2) | Respond to Dan the man who lives in Denial Land, Re: "P4 is total fraud, and so are Intel's crooked benchmarks." hardocp.com "Now that we are outside the box, let's really look at what the benchmarks showed us overall. The Pentium4 won some, the Palomino won some. In our everyday usage we would find it hard to say that one or the other is the winner. It is certain though that the S478 Pentium4 2GHz is no slouch when it comes to performance and can certainly be a CPU that many would be proud to have in their box."Overall though, the Pentium4 at 2GHz is nobody's fool and should not be taken lightly by the competition. The Pentium4 line of CPUs will only become more and more of a menace to AMD as the SSE2 instruction code is taken advantage of by software makers. Don't kid yourself and think it won't be. These things just take time."This CPU is going to allow Intel back into the mainstream enthusiasts workshop as the GHz ramp up and the prices ramp down. It may not be a DIYers solution this very day, but scratching it off the list for your next upgrade or box building project is not a good idea. The guys at Intel are smart folks, even though over the last year they have lost many fans. They are going to use those smarts to try to win some of you guys back, and the 2GHz S478 Pentium4 is simply the first step in that direction"
