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ONLY GOOD FOR GAMERS

Advantages: excellent speed for gamers
Disadvantages: The price, speed for buisness users

The P4 has almost the biggest hype on the market just now but it really is just the biggest waste of money for buisness users. Alright, I'll give it some slack, it is really good for gamers as it runs pretty smoothly and better than the P3 but it is usel ...

zarniwoop 16.02.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz processor

The Beginning of a new era.....

Advantages: Fast
Disadvantages: Not the fastest, very expensive

There is no denying it; the last twelve months have been anything but enjoyable for Intel, the mighty chipmaker based in Santa Clara, California. While the chip giant is still making billions and has thus certainly no serious reasons to complain about sma ...

SKaRT 02.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz processor

Nice blue men, but not good enough...

Advantages: Technologically more advanced than the Athlons. Once SSE2 instructions catered for, it will be much faster.
Disadvantages: Expensive. At the moment, the SSE2 instructions are not used and therefore the proccessor is not the best you can get.

Intel have had a few problems lately. A mixture of stupidity, over-confidence and general laziness has allowed the underdog AMD to take quite a significant portion of Intels annual turnover. Cue the Pentium 4. Nice blue men, but is it any good? Well th ...

cool_bob 04.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz processor

Pentium IV...Vs...Athlon DDR

Advantages: Will be fast when the software is optimised
Disadvantages: New socket format, special power supply, uses RDRAM at the moment.

...A lot has been said about the Pentium IV since it's launch, most of it being negative. This isn't the first time that Intel have been criticised for new processors, but ultimately their technology becomes more accepted and in some cases the standard. Reme ...

cjkace 04.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz processor

The latest offering from Intel

Advantages: A great chip
Disadvantages: Upgrading could prove expensive.

Intel have been producing Processor chips for PC's for about 25 years and have grown from unheard of small hardware producer to market force the world over. In fact, Intel (short for INTegrated ELectronics) started out life as a pair of guys unhappy at w ...

andycharger 14.01.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz processor